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The queen is a playing card
Playing card

A playing card is a piece of specially prepared heavy paper, thin card, or thin plastic, figured with distinguishing motifs and used as one of a set for playing card games....
 with a picture of a queen on it. The usual rank of a queen is as if it were 12 (that is, between the king
King (playing card)

The king is a playing card with a picture of a king on it. The usual rank of a king is as if it were a 13, that is, above the queen . In some games, the king is the highest-ranked card; in others, the ace is higher....
 and the jack
Jack (playing card)

A jack or knave is a playing card with a picture of a young man on it. The usual rank of a jack, within its suit , is as if it were a 11 ....
).

In the standard English playing card deck, the Queen and the other face cards represent no one in particular, although legend states the Queen of Hearts is a representation of Elizabeth of York
Elizabeth of York

Elizabeth of York was the daughter, sister, niece, wife and mother of Kings of England. She was List of English consorts as spouse of King Henry VII of England, whom she married in 1486....
, queen consort
Queen consort

A queen consort is the title given to the wife of a reigning Monarch. Queens consort usually share their husbands' Royal and noble ranks and hold the feminine equivalent of their husbands' monarchical titles....
 of Henry VII of England
Henry VII of England

Henry VII was the Kingdom of England and Lordship of Ireland from his usurpation of the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death on 21 April 1509, as the first monarch of the Tudor dynasty....
. Certainly the headdress the queen wears under her crown is of the Early Tudor
Tudor dynasty

The House of Tudor was a prominent European royal house that ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms from 1485 until 1603. Founded by Henry VII of England, who, though his paternal family was Welsh people ?his grandfather was Owen Tudor? was himself also a legitimized descendent of the royal House of Lancaster....
 era.

In contrast, French deck manufacturers traditionally assigned each court card a particular historical or mythological personage.






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The queen is a playing card
Playing card

A playing card is a piece of specially prepared heavy paper, thin card, or thin plastic, figured with distinguishing motifs and used as one of a set for playing card games....
 with a picture of a queen on it. The usual rank of a queen is as if it were 12 (that is, between the king
King (playing card)

The king is a playing card with a picture of a king on it. The usual rank of a king is as if it were a 13, that is, above the queen . In some games, the king is the highest-ranked card; in others, the ace is higher....
 and the jack
Jack (playing card)

A jack or knave is a playing card with a picture of a young man on it. The usual rank of a jack, within its suit , is as if it were a 11 ....
).

In the standard English playing card deck, the Queen and the other face cards represent no one in particular, although legend states the Queen of Hearts is a representation of Elizabeth of York
Elizabeth of York

Elizabeth of York was the daughter, sister, niece, wife and mother of Kings of England. She was List of English consorts as spouse of King Henry VII of England, whom she married in 1486....
, queen consort
Queen consort

A queen consort is the title given to the wife of a reigning Monarch. Queens consort usually share their husbands' Royal and noble ranks and hold the feminine equivalent of their husbands' monarchical titles....
 of Henry VII of England
Henry VII of England

Henry VII was the Kingdom of England and Lordship of Ireland from his usurpation of the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death on 21 April 1509, as the first monarch of the Tudor dynasty....
. Certainly the headdress the queen wears under her crown is of the Early Tudor
Tudor dynasty

The House of Tudor was a prominent European royal house that ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms from 1485 until 1603. Founded by Henry VII of England, who, though his paternal family was Welsh people ?his grandfather was Owen Tudor? was himself also a legitimized descendent of the royal House of Lancaster....
 era.

In contrast, French deck manufacturers traditionally assigned each court card a particular historical or mythological personage. The queens in a French deck are traditionally assigned names as follows:

  • Queen of Spades: Athena
    Athena

    In Greek mythology, Athena is the shrewd companion of Hero and the goddess of Hero endeavour. She is the virgin patron of Athens, which built the Parthenon to worship her....
  • Queen of Hearts: Judith
    Book of Judith

    [Image:Cristofano Allori 002.jpg|thumb|220px|Judith with the Head of Holophernes, by Cristofano Allori, 1613 The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Septuagint and in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible, but excluded by Judaism and Protestantism....
     (Biblical figure)
  • Queen of Diamonds: Rachel
    Rachel

    Rachel is the second and favorite wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin, first mentioned in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible....
     (Biblical figure)
  • Queen of Clubs: Argine (an anagram
    Anagram

    An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; e.g., orchestra = carthorse, Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one, A decimal point = I'm a dot in place....
     of Regina, Latin for "queen")


See also

  • List of poker hand nicknames
  • The Queen of Hearts
    Queen of Hearts (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

    File:Queen of Hearts.jpgThe Queen of Hearts is a character from the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by the writer and mathematician Lewis Carroll....
    , a character from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • "The Queen of Spades
    The Queen of Spades (story)

    The Queen of Spades is an acclaimed short story by Alexander Pushkin about human avarice. Pushkin wrote the story in autumn 1833 in Boldino and it was first published in the literary magazine Biblioteka dlya chteniya in March 1834 in literature....
    ", a short story by Alexander Pushkin
  • The Queen of Spades
    The Queen of Spades (opera)

    The Queen of Spades, Op. 68 is an opera in 3 acts by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composer's brother Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, based on a The Queen of Spades by the poet Alexander Pushkin....
    , an opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
     based on Pushkin's story
  • Queen of Spades, the title used by Chibodee Crocket in the 1994 anime Mobile Fighter G Gundam
    Mobile Fighter G Gundam

    is a Japanese anime television series directed by Yasuhiro Imagawa .G Gundam is the first of three Gundam series created to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the franchise in 1994....
  • "Queen of Hearts"
    Queen of Hearts (song)

    "Queen of Hearts" is a country music-pop music song written by Hank DeVito.The song first appeared on Dave Edmunds's 1979 album Repeat When Necessary and the single reached #11 in the UK that year....
    , a Hank DeVito-written 1979 song by Dave Edmunds; the international hit version was released in 1981 by Juice Newton.
  • Queen of Hearts
    Queen of Hearts (TV play)

    Queen of Hearts was a play, directed by Tim King , that was shown on BBC2 television on 28 August 1985 ....
    , a BBC TV play of 1985