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It's possible that the scene in the Queen of Hearts' garden, in which the gardeners are painting the white roses red, is a reference to the War of the Roses. In this war, the Lancastrians, who were symbolised by a red rose, defeated the Yorkists, who had a white rose as their symbol. As a result, many critics have assumed that the Queen's hatred of white roses and insistence on having red ones must be because she is supposed to be a Lancastrian.
In 1928, writer CW Giles went further still and proclaimed that the Queen of Hearts must in fact represent Queen Margaret, wife of Henry VI, and goes on to draw parallels between Lewis Carroll and William Shakespeare. He points out that in Shakespeare's play Henry VI, in reference to the Duke of York, Queen Margaret commands, "Off with the crown, and, with the crown, his head," and, "Off with his head and set it on York gates."
Margaret's use of the Queen of Hearts' favourite phrase suggests that there may well be a connection here, and Carroll was probably familiar with the play, but whether he intended there to be a direct connection between the Queen of Hearts and Queen Margaret, or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the War of the Roses is unknown.
source: Lenny's Alice in Wonderland Site - see related link below
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