Elizabeth Norton

Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy

Tuesday 30 September
Castle Hill Baptist Church
7.30pm

Female kings have always been a rarity, an oddity, or an undesirable outcome. Across the globe, a male ruler has been preferred to a woman, with female inheritance vanishingly rare and frequently disputed. 

Despite this, women have secured crowns – or fought for them – over the millennia. 

From the familiar – Boudicca, Cleopatra, Catherine the Great – to the unfamiliar – Urracca of Castile and Leon, Kushite Queen Shanakdakhete, Lili’uokalani of Hawaii –  Women Who Ruled the World covers an exhilarating expanse of time and space as Elizabeth Norton tells the story of five thousand years of queenship – female kings, women who risked everything, sometimes unwillingly, to find a place in a man’s world.

Tickets £15.00

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