TOP(1) query for Oracle AND Microsoft SQL Server

I have two tables. One called EMAILQUEUE and another called EMAILQUEUE_STATUS. EMAILQUEUE contains information about emails sent or to be sent. EMAILQUEUE_STATUS contains a record of the status of each item in EMAILQUEUE. I need to get a list of all items in EMAILQUEUE whose most recent status from the EMAILQUEUE_STATUS table is "Ready to send". If I was using an Oracle database I could use something like this:

SELECT ... FROM EMAILQUEUE_STATUS WHERE STATUS = 'Ready' AND ROWNUM = 1 ORDER BY TIME_STAMP DESC

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For Microsoft SQL Server I could use something similar but different due to differences in syntax:

SELECT TOP(1) ... WHERE STATUS = 'READY' ORDER BY TIME_STAMP DESC

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Here's the catch. I need a single query statement that will work with the same syntax for both Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. I'm thinking some kind of group by or partition might be the way to go but I'm not quite figuring it out. Anyone have any ideas?

Oh and by the way, this needs to be compatible with Oracle 11g or later and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 or later. Unfortunately, Oracle 11g doesn't support CROSS APPLY so that option is out. :(