Shajar al-Durr
Shajar al-Durr rose from being a child slave to ruling as a sultana in Egypt.
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Mah Chuchak Begum
Mah Chuchak Begum was a wife of the second Mughal emperor Humayun who took over Kabul and rode into battle with her troops.
Margaret of Anjou
Queen of England
Gráinne O’Malley
Irish noblewoman and sea captain
Anne of Austria
Queen of France
Jeanne d’Albret
Queen of Navarre
Sayyida al Hurra
Moroccan pirate and ruler of Tetouan.
Queen Anne (Great Britain)
Anne, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, the last member of the house of Stuart who sat upon the English throne.
Mary Stuart
Queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567
Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
After her husband’s death in 1758 she took the reins of government, and held them so well that Saxe-Weimar was able speedily to recover from the effects of the Seven Years’ War, and escaped the famine of 1773.