Two wrists side by side with matching dark script tattoos, Queen on the left and King on the right, with gold chain bracelets.

Matching Queen and King wrist script tattoos

Lettering · Other · Black and grey · Photo

The photograph shows two wrists placed side by side, each with a single word in cursive script: Queen on the left and King on the right. The lettering is drawn in dark ink with smooth, even strokes and little visible shading. Gold chain bracelets sit on both wrists against a warm, yellowish background.

Lettering Other Queen King Script Lettering Wrist Bracelet Couple

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

You have been standing at the edge of the Palais floor since eight, pretending the brass band is not calling your name. Mrs Pryce, who runs the Saturday competition with a clipboard and a fur stole she never takes off, is holding up two gold chain bracelets like handcuffs won at a fair. The prize, she announces, goes to the King and Queen of the Floor, and the winners must waltz the last dance with their wrists joined.

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Your partner for the night is Stanley Oakes, who has trodden on your left foot four times and apologised each time as though it were his fault for being born. He fastens one bracelet on your wrist with the tip of his tongue poking out the corner of his mouth. The clasp is stiff. You both pretend it is not.

The waltz is slow, and the floor has emptied to a ring of chairs. Stanley leans in and says the speech he has been rehearsing in the bus queue: that you are not a queen at all, you are a menace, and he would like to be your king regardless. You tell him kings should learn to count. He laughs so hard he loses the step, and the whole hall turns to watch you both fall into each other.

Afterwards, under the cloakroom bulb, you take a biro from your handbag and write the words on each other's wrists, backwards so the mirror will read them the right way round. Queen. King. The ink smudges and runs. Forty years on, when the biro has long since faded, you have both had the words inked properly, in the same looping hand, and Stanley still insists the K was his idea.