Boudica
The Ancients
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The Negative Model of Boudica
We don't have any other british queens around this time in ancient history that we can use as possible comparison to boudica. We have a negative model so amongst the bergantes who are vando western side of britain we have a woman called cartimandua who was a leader and is identified actually as a queen. None of our roman sources call boudica a regina she is a duksefemina she's a female general they call this woman a regina right so an actual queen. She for various reasons who knows was not the most morally upright of women and took up with her husband's steward, divorced her husband and had
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