Happy World Book Day! My latest book is Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy, which looks at women and power from the dawn of recorded history. Available in all good booksellers 😀 @wearefootnote.bsky.social
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Spotlight on the reigning delegates

Zainab says the queens perform daily activities, since winning the crown.

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A little reel about Queen Victoria, who is a featured Queen in two chapters of Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy. I look at her both as Queen of the UK and as Empress of India #womenwhoruledtheworle #queenvictoria #victoria #reigningqueen

Japan’s eight reigning empresses. Women are currently barred from the Japanese throne. You can read more about them in Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy, out now #womenwhoruledtheworld #japanesehistory #reigningempress #reigningqueen

Thrilled to be in new episode of Talking Tudors podcast. I’m talking to @onthetudortrail.bsky.social about reigning queens, the subject of my new book Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy @wearefootnote.bsky.social
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Breaking News… we now know what book Elizabeth I was reading under an oak tree in Hatfield Park when informed that she had become Queen. #womenwhoruledtheworld #elizabethi #tudor #tudora #reigningqueen #femaleking

It’s publication day! 🥳 🎈 🍾

Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy published by @wearefootnote and available in all good booksellers.

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I agree with you on all points Matilda. You would have been much more effective than that throne-stealer Stephen #womenwhoruledtheworld #empressmatilda #ladyoftheenglish #reigningqueen #femaleking

6 days to go….
Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy out 4 Sept @wearefootnote.bsky.social Only book exclusively on reigning queens/female kings globally across time. So excited that everyone will get the chance to read it 👑
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Still recording the audiobook for Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy, out next week.‬⁩ I can’t wait to share this book, which tells the important story of the world’s reigning queens/female kings with everyone #womenwhoruledtheworld #reigningqueen #femaleking #mybook

One month until publication!!! Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy is the only book to tell the global history of female kings/reigning queens @wearefootnote.bsky.social #womenwhoruledtheworld #femaleking #reigningqueen

The cover's back... and there's still time to take advantage of 25% off if you pre-order from @waterstones.bsky.social by 31 July, using code SUMMER25

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Tamar the Great, Georgia’s once & future female king (like King Arthur, she’s sleeping in a hidden cave beneath the mountains in order to one day return). She’s in my new book Women Who Ruled the World; 5000 Years of Female Monarchy @wearefootnote.bsky.social Sept 2025 #tamar #reigningqueen

Commemorative coin minted in Tonga for Queen Salote Tupou III. Salote famous for her rainy ride in Elizabeth II’s coronation procession in 1953. Read more in my book ‘Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy’, out 4 September 😉
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Medal depicting coronation of Maria Theresa as queen of Bohemia 1743. The Habsburg heiress had to fight for almost every inch of land she inherited. You can read more about Maria Theresa & other female kings in my forthcoming book 😉 #womenwhoruledtheworld #femaleking #reigningqueen #mariatheresa

It may look like I’m standing by a broken wall (I am), but look closely, a reigning queen hides in the stone. 2ndC BCE Queen Shanakdakhete (probably), Kandake of Meroe in modern Sudan. Displayed British Museum. Read more in my forthcoming book Women Who Ruled the World #reigningqueen #femaleking

#OTD 1186 Constance, future reigning queen of Sicily wed future Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI in Milan. Constance endured troubled path to the throne, with illegitimate nephew Tancred seizing the crown & imprisoning her. She overthrew his son to take throne in 1194 #queen #reigningqueen #onthisday

#OTD 1252 death of Isabella reigning queen of Armenian Cilicia from infancy in 1219 until her death. Wed in to Philip of Antioch before later wed to son of her regent. Never entirely independent, but did retain some power in spite of her husbands’ rule #onthisday #reigningqueen #armenia