Possible Clues:

• The Spanish sovereign, a failure
• Concession speech giver
• Some failure, so likely to get turned over?
• One not allowed in the winners' circle
• Taunting word
• Increasingly profligate, abandoned by one love, is a failure
• Vanquished one
• Queen after large, very large failure
• Weeper, proverbially
• Look less than half serious, as one generally inept?