Boadicea Haranguing the Britons

Wild pagan, warrior queen, vengeful woman, scourge of the Romans, destroyer of Londinium (London); call her what you will, Boadicea’s name has come down to us as a force to reckoned with.

Her name is spelled various ways; Boadicea, Boudicca, Boudica. Nobody knows for sure the ‘correct’ spelling. She was the Queen of the Iceni people who lived in what is now county Norfolk and northern Suffolk.

As the story goes, in the year 60 A.D. her husband, the King Prasutagus, before he died willed his territory in three parts, to his two Continue reading →