The Queen of Hearts (poem)

[1] However, Iona and Peter Opie have argued that there is evidence to suggest that these other stanzas were later additions to an older poem.

In The Real Personage of Mother Goose, Katherine Elwes Thomas claims the King and Queen of Hearts are based on Elizabeth of Bohemia and the events that resulted in the outbreak of the Thirty Years War.

[6] In 1844 Halliwell included the poem in the 3rd Edition of his The Nursery Rhymes of England (though he dropped it from later editions) and Caldecott made it the subject of one of his 1881 "Picture Books", a series of illustrated nursery rhymes which he normally issued in pairs before Christmas from 1878 until his death in 1886.

[4] "The Queen of Hearts" is quoted in and forms the basis for the plot of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI: "Who Stole the Tarts?

",[7] a chapter that lampoons the British legal system through means of the trial of the Knave of Hearts,[8] where the rhyme is presented as evidence.