The Queen's Bench (or, during the reign of a male monarch, the King's Bench) is the superior court in a number of jurisdictions within some of the Commonwealth realms. The original King's Bench, founded in 1215 in the United Kingdom, is one of the ancient courts of England, and is now a division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales.
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“The Queen has lands and gold, Mother
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While you are forced to your empty breast
A skeleton Babe to hold”
—Amelia Edwards (1831–1892)