“The Iron Lady”—not only Margaret Thatcher deserved this honorable title. In all times, long before the victory of feminism, great queens and rulers, favorites and princesses debunked the myth of the “weaker sex,” not merely rising to the top of power, but leading millions of men behind them. Nefertiti and Cleopatra, Princess Olga and Joan of Arc, Elizabeth Tudor and Catherine de Medici, Catherine the Great and Queen Victoria, Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Evita Perón, Raisa Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, Princess Diana—this book contains biographies of legendary women betrothed to power, forever inscribing their names into history.
What price did they have to pay for strength and fame? Is power compatible with love, family, children—with simple female happiness? And is it true that even the most “iron” women cry too?..