TITLE: Queen of the ICENI, 59-61
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REFN: A31
Alias: Boudiccam, Boudica
CAUS: poisoned herself@@S1135@@pg 38
...had already offered to share her realm with Nero. Instead, in a show of suicidal arrogance and brutality, the local administrator had it declared a slave province as if it had resisted rather than collaborated with the Romans. To make the point about exactly who owned whom, Boudicca was then treated to
a public flogging while her two daughters were raped. The immediate result was not only to transform a willing, even eager, family of collaborators into implacable enemies but also to bring about exactly what the more intelligent Romans all along had sought to avoid: an immense coalition of the disaffected sweeping through an entire region of the country.
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Boudicca committed suicide. Boudicca was a large woman with long red hair. She would lead armies and fight. The congested melee turned into a gory, chaotic slaughter, and Boudicca took
her own life rather than fall into the hands of the Romans.
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In a sculputre by Thomas Thornycroft, Boadicca appears to be aiming her chariot at the Palace of Westminster. After her rebellion against the Romans was finally smashed, the English
queen killed herself. Legend puts her burial place beneath Platform 10, King's Cross Station, although others claim it to be on Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath.@@S1116@@pg 128