Generally, however, as we are told by Carroll: She is deterred by her comparatively moderate husband by being reminded that Alice is only a child. The Queen then becomes frustrated and commands that her head be chopped off. When the Queen arrives, along with the King and their ten children, and asks Alice who is lying on the ground (since the backs of all playing cards look alike), Alice tells her that she does not know. They drop to the ground face down at the approach of the Queen of Hearts, whom Alice has never met. She is often confused with the Red Queen from the 1871 sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, although the two are very different.Īlice observes three playing cards painting white roses red. The Queen is referred to as a card from a pack of playing cards by Alice, yet somehow she is able to talk and is the ruler of the lands in the story, alongside her husband, the King of Hearts. One of her most famous lines is the oft-repeated 'Off with his/her head!' / 'Off with their heads!'

She is a childish, foul-tempered monarch whom Carroll himself describes as 'a blind fury', and who is quick to give death sentences at even the slightest of offenses. The Queen of Hearts is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. John Tenniel's illustration of the King and Queen of Hearts at the trial of the Knave of Hearts.ĭisney's Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

The king playing with the queen