Which queen in Wonderland constantly shouts 'Off with his head!'?

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The Wonderland queen who constantly shouts “Off with his head!” is the Queen of Hearts. She is the principal antagonist of Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and rules a court represented by playing cards.

Carroll portrays her as a volatile, childish monarch who responds to minor frustrations with demands for execution. Her famous order is repeated in slightly different forms, including “Off with their heads!” The King of Hearts is her husband, but he is usually more cautious and sometimes reminds her that a sentence must be carried out properly or that a person is only a child.

The Queen of Hearts is often confused with the Red Queen, who belongs primarily to Through the Looking-Glass. The two characters are distinct in Carroll’s books, although stage and film adaptations frequently merge or reinterpret them. The Queen of Hearts also presides over the bizarre croquet game in which hedgehogs serve as balls and flamingos serve as mallets, reinforcing the story’s parody of royal authority and formal ceremony.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026

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