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Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy
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A fascinating history of female rulers across time and across the world
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 scintillating book tell the story of the female kings: women who risked everything, sometimes unwillingly, to f...
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 scintillating book tell the story of the female kings: women who risked everything, sometimes unwillingly, to f...