The Boudicca of the East! In 270, Queen Zenobia, regent of her son, launched an invasion and captured most of the Roman Near East (including Egypt). In 271, she claimed the imperial title (with her son) but lost the war against Aurelian who conquered Palmyra and captured Zenobia. She was paraded in Rome during Aurelian’s 274 triumph while tied to shackles of gold as a form of humiliation. There are many accounts of her final days: she was beheaded, given a villa, married a nobleman or married a