A lot of what we "know" about Boadicea is legend. We do not know when or where she was born, who her parents were or even exactly where she came from. We don't even know the correct spelling of her name. We don't know how and when she died, or where she was buried.

We do know that she was of royal birth and lived in the middle of the first century AD, when Britain was overrun with Roman invaders. Somewhere in what today is called East Anglia.

She was the mother of at least two daughters, and the wife of the Iceni King Prasutagus. After the Roman invasion of Britain, Prasutagus became a `client` King, acknowledged by the Romans as a ruler but no longer with any real power. When he died, he left half of his kingdom (and considerable riches) to the Roman emperor, the other half to his daughters (thus Boadicea became the regent for her young children). The local representative of the emperor, Procurator Catus Decianus, was not satisfied with this arrangement and had his troops seize the estate of the late king. It is recorded history that Boudicea was publicly flogged and her two young daughters, heiresses to their father's legacy, were raped.

Rather than break their spirits, these excesses of brutality only rallied the people behind their Queen and against the invaders. She accomplished what no one had tried before ... She united not only her own people, but other tribes as well, to follow her into battle against the Romans. She led an army of 120,000 souls.

The first Roman stronghold to fall was Camulodunum (today's Colchester), at which point Procurator Catus Decianus fled the country with his officers and left the provice without a ruling government.

Boadicea next turned her army toward Londinium in the year 60 AD. The Roman army under the command of Governor Suetonius, took one look at the advancing army, deemed the city indefensible, and abandoned it's civilian population to their fate. A city without much in the way of fortification, it was sacked, burned, destroyed, its citizenry, those who did not manage to flee, were slaughtered. Boadicea 'only' a woman, but one driven by righteous anger, as well as a thirst for revenge and a desire to free her people, strengthened by her devotion to the Goddess Adraste, led the most serious rebellion that the Romans ever faced in Britain and came near to ending Roman domination after only seventeen years.

She's had a full facial re-paint with artist quality acrylics and sealer.
Her liene (the dress) is a linen cotten blend, hand sewn with tabbard trim, her brat (the cloak) is 100% wool with hand embroidered celtic knot work. Her Sheild is hand embossed and painted boiled leather and her sword is hand ground and sharpened carbon steel with a coco bolo handle (it and her wooden stand were created by VKW)