In the Dresden Books, is there any quantified hierarchy among the Sidhe Court political structure?

Question

I don't know of any spoiler tags to hide things, so I'll be vague: it's recently become more relevant where the Summer/Winter Queens, Ladies, Knights sit. So in terms of power: how does, say, the ‘Summer Lady' sit in power versus the ‘Winter Knight'? And can a variance in one's internal ‘talents' rise above another's station?

Answer 1

The relative power levels of the queens is repeatedly stated by Harry, especially in the Cold Days novel.

It seems that everything else is the opinion of Harry, which is to be expected as it's written in the first person. Harry often feels the power of someone who is much more powerful than him, and can easily tell if someone is considerably less powerful.

Up to Cold Days the least of the Sidhe queens have always been more powerful than Harry. Now that he has the mantle of the Winter Knight he seems to be much closer in power to the lesser queens although still not nearly as powerful.

The epic battle at the end of Cold Days shows Harry being outclassed by both Lily and Maeve, even though it is hinted that the mantle of the Winter Knight gives Harry a 'privileged' status against them.

In addition the power of an individual can increase in the Dresden Files universe. Harry has steadily increased in power over the course of the novels as have other characters. However given all that we can still deduce a rough set of power levels from Harry's point of view:

• Ultimate: Mothers, Gods
• Godlike: Queens, Vaderung
• Mighty: The Summer and Winter Ladies, Dragons, the Fallen, Outsiders
• Harry-like: Wizards, Knights
• Lesser: Paranet talents, Apprentices, etc

Answer 2

A basic answer:

Mother > Queen > Lady

And there is a huge gap in power between each one.

Mother: no idea if there is anything that can stop them.

Queens: Dragons, entire White Council.

Lady: very, very powerful wizard.

The comparison between Knight and Lady is not obvious. They are not very far from each other, but it seems that, based on Summer Knight and Cold Days, that the Lady is slightly more powerful than the Knight.