The story I heard about the Queen was that she started off being able to move a single square in each direction[1], but the upgrade to let her move the full dia

The story I heard about the Queen was that she started off being able to move a single square in each direction[1], but the upgrade to let her move the full diagonals, ranks and files was done as a tribute to Queen Isabella of Spain. Here’s a source for this although it’s not where I heard it https://medium.com/exploring-history/did-spains-queen-isabella-change-the-game-of-chess-bf3af6ce5059 https://medium.com/exploring-history/did-spains-queen-isabel... [1] Including maybe jumping like a knight but I may have imagined it