“Iron Woman” – Margaret Thatcher was not the only one who deserved this honorary title. At all times, long before the victory of feminism, great queens and queens, favorites and princesses refuted the myth of the “weaker sex”, not just rising to the heights of power, but leading millions of men. 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 Peron, Raisa Gorbacheva, Margaret Thatcher, Princess Diana - this book contains biographies of legendary women, betrothed to power and forever inscribed their names in history. What price did they have to pay for power and glory? Is power compatible with love, family, children - with simple female happiness? And is it true that even the most “iron” women cry too?..