Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy Adam Beresford Terry Crews

Terry Crews

In Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel

now sophisticated and acerbic

An unflinching and profoundly moving account of caring until death

Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy Adam Beresford Terry CrewsA 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