Warrior Queens: Boadicea's Chariot (77 page)

Mrs Thatcher at the dinner held on 26 January 1988 to celebrate her record as the longest-serving Prime Minister in twentieth-century Britain; she is surrounded by members of her Cabinet (her husband Denis Thatcher is on her left); it is noticeable that there are no female Cabinet ministers to distract attention from the central figure in her glittering brocade costume, among the attendant dinner-jacketed males.

Cartoon (by Gale) of Mrs Thatcher as Boadicea which appeared in the
Daily Telegraph
on polling day,
II
June 1987; leading Labour, Liberal and Social Democrat male politicians are seen in chains trailing behind her scythe-wheeled chariot.

About the Author

Antonia Fraser is the author of many widely acclaimed historical works, including the biographies
Mary
,
Queen of Scots
(a 40th anniversary edition was published in May 2009),
Cromwell: Our Chief of Men
,
King Charles II
and
The Gunpowder Plot
(CWA Non-Fiction Gold Dagger; St Louis Literary Award). She has written five highly praised books which focus on women in history,
The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth-Century England
(Wolfson Award for History, 1984),
The Warrior Queens: Boadicea’s Chariot
,
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
,
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
(Franco-British Literary Prize 2001), which was made into a film by Sofia Coppola in 2006 and
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
. She was awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2000. Antonia Fraser was made DBE in 2011 for her services to literature. She lives in London.

By Antonia Fraser

Mary Queen of Scots

Cromwell: Our Chief of Men

James VI of Scotland, 1 of England

(
Kings and Queens
series)

King Charles II

The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth-Century England

The Warrior Queens: Boadicea’s Chariot

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605

Marie Antoinette: The Journey

Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King

Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter

A Phoenix ebook

First published in Great Britain in 1988 as
Boadicea’s Chariot
by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
First published in ebook in 2011 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Copyright © Antonia Fraser 1988

The right of Antonia Fraser to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the copyright, designs and patents act 1988.

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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN: 978 1 7802 2070 3

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