Queen
British weekly society and fashion magazine, founded 1861 by Samuel Beeton (publisher of Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management). Under the Stevens-and-Beard editorship of the early 1960s, Queen was redirected toward sharp cultural reportage and arch satire (Mark Boxer was art director). Mailer's poem to Lady Jeanne Campbell, "Last Word on Love: Ode to Lady J.," appeared in Queen on 3 April 1962.
Queen — founded in London in 1861 by Samuel Beeton and Charles Cox; relaunched in 1957 under Jocelyn Stevens with art director Mark Boxer — was the smart-set London weekly through the early 1960s. Mailer’s one-time appearance is “Last Word on Love: Ode to Lady J.” (62.6), published 3 April 1962, a poem to his soon-to-be third wife Lady Jeanne Campbell that the New York gossip columns Cholly Knickerbocker (29 April) and Suzy (30 April) used to identify “Lady J” and to break the news that Mailer and Campbell had secretly married on 4 May. (The poem was published before the marriage was contracted; the gossip columns ran with it after.) Reprinted as “Ode to a Lady” in Cannibals and Christians (66.11).
Stub; Queen itself ceased independent publication in 1970, merging with Harper’s Bazaar to form Harpers & Queen.