Queen Trung Trac and Queen Trung Nhi are national heroines of Vietnam.[1] They led a massive rebellion against Han Chinese rule and were made queens. Even though they were ultimately defeated, they became symbols of Vietnam’s resistance against foreign invasion.[2] Queen Trung Trac and Queen Trung Nhi have been honoured in a temple and at an [read more]
Queen Artemisia II of Caria was the sister and wife of King Mausolus. After his death, she was Queen regnant of Caria for two years. Queen Artemisia II of Caria was also a brilliant navy admiral and a skilled botanist.[1] Yet, her most renowned accomplishment was that she commissioned King Mausolus’s tomb.[2] It became one of the [read more]
Tlapalizquixochtzin was the Queen regnant of the Aztec city-state, Ecatepec. She was also one of the two Empresses of Emperor Moctezuma II of the Aztec Empire. However, there is very minimal information regarding this little-known Queen regnant. Yet, it was clear that she ruled over a wealthy city-state and was the second most powerful woman [read more]
Salome I was the queen regnant of Iamnia, Azotus, and Phasaelis. She was the sister of King Herod the Great of Judea. Chroniclers have often depicted her as “the female counterpart of her brother in her unbridled passions, her intellectual capacity, her ambition, and her ruthlessness.”[1] In the chronicles, she plots the deaths of her [read more]
Lady Sak K’uk’ (also known as Queen Muwaan Mat and Lady Beastie) was the second recorded female ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque. She rose to the position of Queen because there were no male candidates who were fit for kingship. In order to legitimize her rule, she declared divinity for herself as a [read more]
What makes a Queen, and what kind of Queens are there exactly? Queen regnant A Queen regnant is a Queen who rules in her own right (for example, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Queen Margrethe II of Denmark). The husband of a Queen regnant is usually a Prince, as the title of [read more]
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