Prince Albert was known to be a fan and by the late nineteenth century English rulebooks describing solitaire games began to be published. By the mid-nineteenth century solitaire had become a popular past-time in France and it was around this time it began to spread to England too. …(continued) If you are British you may have heard Solitaire being referred to as “Patience” and the French are also known to call it “Reussite” (that is French for “Success”).
