Most Protestants Like you Aieno will state the following;
“The Madonna of Rome is the Madonna of Ancient Babylon,” regurgitates the typical anti-Catholic claim that Catholic belief in Mary’s Queenship is warmed-over paganism. The person will quote Jeremiah 44:15-17, where the people of Judah rebelliously reject the prophet Jeremiah’s message in preference to their idolatrous worship of an entity called “the Queen of Heaven” — apparently the pagan deity Ishtar.
The claim is that this idolatrous, pagan worship of the Queen of Heaven has been carried over by the Catholic Church into its “worship” of Mary as the Queen of Heaven.
Many anti-Catholic Fundamentalists and even a few otherwise more sympathetic Evangelical Christians hold this ludicrous view.
First let me be clear about what the Catholic Church means by the Queenship of Mary. Simply put, the Queenship of Mary refers to Mary’s royal dignity as Mother of the King of Kings, Jesus Christ. As we shall see, that title takes nothing away from Jesus’ own Kingship, but rather is a consequence of it.
In his encyclical Ad Caeli Reginam (1954), Pius XII taught, “Certainly, in the full and strict meaning of the term, only Jesus Christ, the God-Man, is King; but Mary, too, as Mother of the divine Christ, as His associate in the redemption, in His struggle with His enemies and His final victory over them, has a share, though in a limited and analogous way, in His royal dignity” (no. 39). Pope Pius XII makes clear that royal dignity belongs “in the full and strict” sense to Jesus Christ alone. At the same time, Mary possesses a certain royal dignity by association with Christ–in his Incarnation, Redemption and victory over evil.
Vatican II also affirmed Mary’s Queenship: “She was exalted by the Lord as Queen of all in order that she might be more thoroughly conformed to her Son, the Lord of Lords and the conqueror of sin and death” (Lumen Gentium 59; cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 966).
Mary’s Queenship is based on a number of things. First, Mary’s maternal relationship to Jesus, the King of Kings. Second, the Blessed Virgin’s association with Jesus’ work of redemption. Third, the royal dignity possessed by all members of the Church, including Mary, which is fully realized in heaven.
This last element is, in a sense, an extension of Mary’s association with Jesus, only under the aspect of her relation to the Church. Scriptural explanations of these points can help recognize Mary’s royal dignity.
In 1 Kings 2:19, Bathsheba, the queen mother of Solomon, is honored by her son, who stands to greet her and pays her homage when she comes to him on a matter of state. The Bible declares, “Then he sat down upon his throne, and a throne was provided for the king’s mother, who sat at his right.”
Also, the queen mother often advised the king. Proverbs 31:1-9, for example, summarizes the advice King Lemuel’s mother gave him on how to govern. Included are warnings to the king against focusing on his harem and against excessive drinking, as well as an appeal that he care for the poor.
The close link between the king and the queen mother can also be seen in Jeremiah 13:18. Jeremiah warns of the judgment to come on the monarchy and includes the queen mother: “Say to the king and to the queen mother: come down from your throne; From your heads fall your magnificent crowns.” Apparently, not only the king but also the queen mother wore a crown.
Psalm 45:9 refers to the Queen Mother standing at the king’s right hand, arrayed in gold. Hebrews 1:8-9 applies this psalm to Jesus as Messianic King. By extension, Psalm 45:9 would then apply prophetically to the Messianic King’s Mother, Mary.
This Title, (Queen) has nothing to do with Paganism.