Now here was one tough woman.
When her husband, the king of the Iceni in northern England died leaving no male heir, the Romans annexed his kingdom, humiliated his family and went to work looting and plundering.
With the provincial governor absent, Boudicca raised a rebellion and started breaking heads.
She burned Camulodunum, Verulamium and part of Londinium, massacred an estimated 70,000 Romans and their British supporters, and cut the Roman 9th Legion to ribbons.
Governor Suetonius Paulinus, returning home, hurriedly raised army and defeated Boudicca in a desperate battle north of London, securing Roman rule of the province for a century or two longer.
Boudicca probably took poison rather than face Roman captivity and justice.
