Virgin Queen brought in wives essentially for exchanging information (11)
I believe the answer is:
interactive
'virgin' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'queen brought in wives essentially for exchanging information' is the wordplay.
'queen' becomes 'er' (abbreviation for Elizabeth Regina).
'brought in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'essentially' means to look at the middle letters.
'for' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'exchanging information' becomes 'intact' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
The middle of 'wives' is 'ive'.
'ive' put after 'intact' is 'intactive'.
'er' inserted into 'intactive' is 'INTERACTIVE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for interactive that I've seen before include "(Of two things) influencing each other" , "Communicating with others in a group" , "Able to afford two-way communication" , "Showing mutual influence" , "Sort of program" .)