abstract:"The Queen of Hearts" is a poem based on the characters found on playing cards, by an anonymous author, originally published with three lesser-known stanzas, "The King of Spades", "The King of Clubs", and "The Diamond King", in the British publication The European Magazine, no. 434, in April 1782.
As I listened to our host praising the enduring political power and influence of Elizabeth of Bohemia, Holland's queenofhearts, I asked myself why there had been no equivalent celebration in the UK?