Boudica - warrior queen of the Iceni

I think there are very few visitors to the U.K.who are not  familiar with our monarch, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned through more than five decades. Many will also know of her pedecessor, Queen Victoria.

However, few have ever heard of  Queen Boudica, one of our earliest heroines, and her story is firmly rooted in this region.

Today it can be hard to imagine how it must have felt to be a Briton trying to survive under the rule of the Roman Empire in the first century A.D.
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