Like the King of Hearts, the Queen of Hearts was one of the deadly pawns used by the Toymaker against Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet when they were trapped in his realm. When not in a contest, the Queen stayed in playing card form. (TV: The Celestial Toymaker [+]Brian Hayles, Doctor Who season 3 (BBC1, 1966).)
When Steven suggested that they were merely products of the Toymaker's imagination, the King and the Queen referred to themselves as "victims of the Toymaker" and "as real as you are" respectively — implying that they were indeed real people that the Toymaker had trapped and transformed for his own amusement, (TV: The Celestial Toymaker [+]Brian Hayles, Doctor Who season 3 (BBC1, 1966).) as he later did to Charles Banerjee in Soho of 1925. (TV: The Giggle [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 2023 specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)
When the fictional Alice Liddell became Mistress of the Land of Fiction, she was also given the title Queen of Hearts. (AUDIO: Legend of the Cybermen [+]Mike Maddox, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2010).)
Behind the scenes[]
- The Queen of Hearts resembled the playing card character of the same name.
- Bearing in mind that Cyril, the Knave of Hearts and the Kitchen Boy were all the same person, this may have been the case with the Queen of Hearts, Clara the Clown and Mrs Wiggs. However, this was never confirmed on-screen.
