She combined rare charm with authority, oratory skills with a magical voice; she was well educated and spoke many languages fluently. The life of Cleopatra, the brilliant Queen of the Nile, told in the first person, unfolds on the pages of Margaret George’s dilogy “Cleopatra’s Diaries” in all its tragic and happy details. In the second book, “The Defeated Queen,” the heroine appears as a person of great fortitude, able to accept the inevitable with dignity. After the death of Caesar at the hands of the conspirators, Cleopatra returns to Alexandria. Grief did not break her, and now she wants at all costs to create a powerful empire capable of resisting the insatiable Rome. The queen arrives to meet the Roman commander Mark Antony on a richly decorated ship with purple sails. She wants to hit the Roman in the very heart, and she succeeds. Cleopatra finds not only a new lover, but also a strong ally. But nothing lasts forever...