Queen, Empress, Concubine

(...) Queen, Empress, Concubine tells the stories of some truly extraordinary women: of Elizabeth I, who fashioned England into a major power; of Catherine the Great, an obscure German princess who dragged the lumbering Russian bear into the modern world; of Empress Wu, whose brilliance laid the foundation for China's golden age; and of Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first woman prime minister and a ruler whose vision still defines the modern political landscape. (...)