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Alice observes three playing cards painting white roses red. They drop to the ground face down at the approach of the Queen of Hearts, whom Alice has never met. 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.
Queen of Hearts, a comedy by Jon Amiel; Queen of Hearts (2004 film), an Australian drama film written and directed by Danielle MacLean; The Queen of Hearts, a French film; Queen of Hearts, a Danish film; Queen of Hearts, a 1985 BBC TV play; Queen of Hearts (D:TNG episode), an episode of Degrassi: The Next Generation
The King of Hearts. Illustration by W. W. Denslow. There has been speculation about a model for the Queen of Hearts. 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.
The oldest pleated Christmas heart (from 1873) is preserved at the National Museum of Norway, in Oslo. [2] But it was still some 40 years before the pleated Christmas hearts became more widespread. The oldest depiction of a Christmas tree decorated with pleated hearts dates from 1901 from the Danish manor house Søllestedgaard. [2]
It is known by a variety of other names including American hearts, [2] black lady hearts, [3] black widow [4] and slippery Anne. [1] In Australia it is known as rickety Kate . [ 5 ] It is sometimes misnamed black Maria which, however, is the British variant of hearts played with additional penalty cards.