She was an Egyptian queen and the Great Royal Wife of Akhenaten, an Egyptian Pharaoh
The last pharaoh of Egypt, ruling before the Romans took control
She was a queen of the British Celtic Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire
She was the first woman to be crowned Queen of England, rather than through marriage to a king
The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or simply Good Queen Bess, she defined an era
During her reign, she extended the borders of the Russian Empire by some 200,000 square miles
Her opulent life and shocking death is a key event of the French Revolution
Her international influence may best be shown by the fact that her nine children married into most of the ruling monarchies of the period, making her 'the Grandmother of Europe'
On 23 April 2019, she became the oldest living monarch following the death of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg.
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