Women who ruled the world : 5000 years of female monarchy

Norton, Elizabeth (Historian)2025

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Female kings have always been a rarity, an oddity, or an undesirable outcome. In almost all places on the globe a male ruler was preferred to a woman, with female inheritance vanishingly rare and frequently disputed. In spite of this, women have secured crowns - or fought for them - over several millennia. This book tell the story of the female kings - women who risked everything, sometimes unwillingly, to find a place in a man's world. 'Women Who Ruled the World' covers an exhilarating expanse of time and space - from the lush oases of Ancient Egypt to the cherry blossomed islands of Japan, from the 19th century Queens of Madagascar who defied French attempts to colonise them to Tamar the Great, who presided over a golden age in Georgia.