All Hail the Queen: Twenty Women Who Ruled
By Jennifer Orkin Lewis and Shweta Jha
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Jennifer Orkin Lewis
Jennifer Orkin Lewis is an artist, illustrator, and author living in New York.
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All Hail the Queen - Jennifer Orkin Lewis
Art, Introduction, and compilation copyright © 2019 by Jennifer Orkin Lewis.
Chapter text copyright © 2019 by Chronicle Books LLC.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.
ISBN 9781452166803 (epub, mobi)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lewis, Jennifer Orkin, author, illustrator. | Jha, Shweta, author.
Title: All hail the queen : twenty women who ruled / By Jennifer Orkin Lewis ; Written by Shweta Jha.
Description: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2019]
Identifiers: LCCN 2018031273 | ISBN 9781452166735 (alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Queens--Biography.
Classification: LCC D107.3 .L49 2018 | DDC 920.72—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018031273
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION8
HATSHEPSUT PHARAOH OF EGYPT10
ATOSSA QUEEN OF PERSIA17
OLYMPIAS QUEEN OF MACEDONIA22
CLEOPATRA QUEEN OF EGYPT29
BOUDICA QUEEN OF THE ICENI34
HIMIKO QUEEN OF THE YAMATAI41
ZENOBIA QUEEN OF PALMYRA46
WU ZETIAN EMPRESS OF CHINA53
LADY SIX SKY MAYA QUEEN OF NARANJO58
ROXELANA QUEEN OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE65
ELIZABETH I QUEEN OF ENGLAND70
NUR JAHAN EMPRESS OF MUGHAL INDIA77
CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN QUEEN OF SWEDEN82
CATHEERINE THE GREAT EMPRESS OF RUSSIA89
ALIQUIPPA QUEEN OF THE SENECA94
MARIE ANTOINETTE QUEEN OF FRANCE101
LAKSHMI BAI RANI OF JHANSI106
VICTORIA QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM113
LILIUOKALANI QUEEN OF HAWAII118
MARIE QUEEN OF ROMANIA125
SOURCES130
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS136
About the Author
137
INTRODUCTIONBy JENNIFER ORKIN LEWIS
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
—Queen Elizabeth I
This book tells the stories and illustrates the lives of twenty strong, brave women who each became queen of her people. Some were rulers by birth, others through marriage. Nearly all led lives full of dramatic events and intrigue. These monarchs all lived in times when, historically, women didn’t have equal status to men—a state of affairs that is sadly still true in many cases today. Had they followed the cultural norms of their times, they ought to have been quiet and unassertive. Each and every one of them overcame those expectations and made her mark on the culture and people she ruled.
I came to this project from the perspective of a painter, and a lover of color, story, and fashion. I’ve always adored reading books and watching shows about the lives