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Princess Caraboo
This phony Asian royalty fooled rural England for some time - but the truth she was hiding was far darker.

Soraya Tarzi
1920s Afghanistan was a progressive and rapidly-modernizing country in large part to the most powerful, empathic, and maligned queen it had ever seen.

Moll Cutpurse
Cross-dressing Queen of Thieves who flouted social norms and had plays written about her.

Kharboucha
This legendary pockmarked poet sang truth to power and was killed for it, becoming an enduring symbol of resistance.

Rani Lakshmibai
Widowed young queen who led a fearsome rebellion against the British with her child tied to her back.

Riina
When flying cannibal ghosts kidnapped two women, there was no man that could save them. But there was a woman.

Étaín
Mythological Irish princess who was turned into a worm, butterfly, and a pool of water; who induced the strangest pregnancy since Jesus; and who may hold the key to understanding Ireland's history.

Man-deok Kim
When famine hit Jeju island, where she'd been exiled since birth, this prostitute-turned-businesswoman spent her fortune to feed everyone.

Mariya Oktyabrskaya
When her husband was killed in WW2, she sold all their belongings, bought a tank, named it Fighting Girlfriend, and started killing Nazis.

Gertrude Bell
Tossed off the expectations of Victorian society to become an expert mountaineer and archaeologist, traveled the Middle East by herself…