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Women who ruled the world : 5000 years of female monarchy

Norton, Elizabeth (Historian)2025
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 severa...
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