Noun

1. One of the 52 playing cards from a standard pack as used for bridge and poker, with a picture of a queen, with a nominal value of 12, and with the hearts suit.
2. A woman who has gained the adoration of the public.
   • 1902, Francis Templeman, The Catholic

     At eighteen she was the Queen of Hearts and conscious of the fact: an exacting, dictatorial, haughty woman...

   • 1956, Eliza Marian Butler, Byron and Goethe

     Extravagantly pretty, with a delicate figure and great dark-blue eyes, cordial, charming and a winning hostess, she was the Queen of Hearts in Weimar...