I am interested in learning about Queens and Empresses who played a heavy role in ruling, or ruled outright.
Besides the super famous ones like Catherine the Great and Queen Elizabeth, what other women can I read about, preferably before the 20th and 19th centuries.
hi! hoping for more responses, but there have been a few posts about women in power. I've done a quickie search & pulled up a few threads that name other rulers:
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