Get ready to dive in to the wondrous world of Queens – a joyous roll call of women who ruled kingdoms across the centuries and continents. From the famous to the obscure, these are stories of strength, resilience and sometimes cruelty, in societies where women were expected to be the fairer sex and to take their lead from men – but instead rebelled to take power.
Celebrate Marie Antoinette’s love of the lavish and extravagant, relish in Tsarina Alexandra’s stubborn refusal to toe the line and be wowed by Syrian warrior queen Septimia Zenobia’s fearless derring-do.
Equals to their male counterparts – about whom so much is already known and continues to be written – there is nothing meek or apologetic about these women.
Queens – over 3,000 years of incredible women who ruled the world!
Celebrating strong, brave women across the centuries and around the world, Queens tells their stories of strength and resilience.
Spanning 3,000 years from Cleopatra to the Viking queens, Queen Nanny of Jamaica to HRH Elizabeth II, discover new stories about fierce female monarchs.
From Queen Neithhotep who is believed to be one of ancient Egypts first queens through to Hatsheput and Nefertiti.
Britain’s Celtic warrior queen
The enchanting and fearless, rebel queen of Syria
Despite being the daughter of a bear-trainer and an actress, Empress Theodora became one of the most powerful women of the Byzantine Empire. And she was a champion of women’s rights, too!
Ruthless ruler of the Tang Dynasty
Supreme warrior of the Centipede Kingdom
Gunnhild was an infamous Viking queen who made many enemies.
Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba – modern-day Angola – fought against Portuguese forces that attempted to control the region in order to increase their profits from the slave trade. She was a fearless warrior and politician.
The flamboyant 17th century queen of Sweden
In seventeenth-century Jamaica there lived a group of people known as the Maroons.
They were descendants of West Africans who had been transported to work as slaves on the European sugar plantations of Jamaica. Some spent their lives imprisoned, but others managed to escape to live in the safety of the Blue Mountains. One was to become a fearless chief: Queen Nanny.
The last queen of France
Indian warrior queen
Queen Liliuokalani was Hawaii’s first queen – but last ever monarch.
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