Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy Adam Beresford symbolic precision and stylistic punch'

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Best known throughout the world as the author and illustrator of The Little Prince

Terry Crews

In Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel

Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures

Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy Adam Beresford symbolic precision and stylistic punch'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