g the first century A.D. Most were tall, blond and blue-eyed and were fierce warriors, even the women. Their territory was what is now Norfolk and Suffolk.
             In 60 A.D., their king, Prasutagus, died and left his kingdom to his two daughters, under the regency of his wife, Boadicea, and his personal properties and lands jointly to his daughters and the Roman Emperor Nero. Nero was Claudius's stepson and had succeeded him as Emperor of Rome in A.D. 54, after Claudius was assassinated.
             Prasutagus did this to prevent further conflict with Rome, but when the Romans came to take the province, they acted as if they had conquered it. They took everything, made the king's relatives into slaves and flogged Boadicea and raped his two daughters. At that Boadicea became very angry and called for every Briton within
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