Statue of Boudicca - an ancient warrior who became a symbol of the British nation - can be attributed to a number of paradoxes London. The fact that the Boudicca in 60, or 61 year, fighting against the Romans, has managed to London (Londinium) brutally: burned to the ground. Despite this, the appearance of the first British "Iron Lady" is immortalized on the west c congress Westminster Bridge.

Queen barbarians, known for the Roman historian, became the object of a romantic cult when Queen Elizabeth and Victoria. Perhaps the great British ruler flattered that they had the fearless predecessor, fought with Rome itself. Or maybe the fact that the name of the matriarch, as the name of Victoria, means "victory". It was in the Victorian era were numerous sculptures of the Queen's soldiers who gave their lives for freedom.

Tacitus noted that Boudicca was tall, loud-with long red hair and minds "is much larger than usual at the woman." Her husband Pratsutag ruled the Iceni tribe. When he died, the Romans conquered the land of the tribe, Boudicca publicly flogged, raped two daughters. Soon, the queen raised the banner of revolt. Iceni under her leadership, defeated the Roman legion IX. The governor Gaius Suetonius Britain realized that laid eighteen years ago, it is impossible to defend Londinium - the Romans had left him, and the queen of the barbarians burned the city, and the inhabitants who had not managed to escape cut at the root.

In the decisive battle of the military experience of the Romans still prevailed: Iceni were broken, Boudicca, according to Tacitus, took poison hemlock and died black. Tacitus wrote that before the battle it requested his soldiers did not consider it a noble queen, and a woman, the avenger of freedom taken away and scold chastity daughters.

The bronze statue, created by Thomas Thornycroft in 1902, depicts a violent warrior with a spear in his hand on a chariot drawn by two horses. Queen calling warriors to fight beside her - her daughter, the insulted honor of which she takes revenge on the Romans. Sculptor slightly exaggerated the power of ancient weapons - massive chariots, equipped with protruding from the hub battle streamers are typical for most of ancient Persia. But the furious rush of offended women, ready to give their lives for freedom, transferred perfectly.

The statue faces the Westminster that can be considered symbolic: an ancient queen as it applies to today's members of parliament responsible for the country.