Boudicca means "victorious" or Victoria. Boudicca was briefly victorious and is viewed as a heroic symbol of Britain. She was Queen of the Iceni, a Celtic tribe in the time of the Roman Emperor Nero. They lived in eastern Britain which is now Norfolk and Suffolk.

Boudica married Prasutagus, King of the Iceni. He bequeathed half of his kingdom to the Roman emperor and half to his two daughters in the hope of providing for his family as well as to keep peace between the Iceni and Rome. When he died his daughters were still young so Boudica ruled for them as was common practice for the Celtics. Roman law did not allow women to rull so they did not recognize Boudica's sovereignty. The Romans marched upon the Iceni lands and seized whatever goods they wanted and flogged Boudica publicly, raped her daughters,took the relatives of Prasutagus into slavery, and claimed the entire kingdom of the Iceni as their own.

Boudicca enlisted the support of the Trinobantians and other neighbouring Celts who had not yet fallen beneath the Roman yoke, and she marched upon Camulodunum, a Roman colony. Camulodunum was the site of a temple built in honor of Claudius, the Roman emperor at the time of the initial invasion of Briton. It mostly represented to the Celts, the center of the Roman attempt to subdue the Celtic religions and their entire way of life.

Boudicca and her army laid the entire colony at Camulodunum to waste. Her armies then headed to London. Hearing of the advancement of Boudicca and her army, The Roman army, upon hearing of the advancement of Boudica and her army, refused to stay and defend the merchants and civilians of London.

Her army then destroyed Verlulamium and several other Roman settlements. She succeeded for almost two years in liberating her people from Roman slavery. She avenged her daughters and her people by the killing of 70,000 people.

Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, the Roman governor of Britain, gathered all the Roman troops in the south of Britain and attacked the Celtic tribes in a narrow valley. Boudica's rebellion was ended here with the defeat of her army. The Romans killed 80,000 Celtic men, women and children.

Boudicca and her two daughters escaped immediate captivity and poisoned themselves rather then be made to walk in a triumphal procession in Rome as prisoners of war.

'Tacitus' Annals' say of Boudica whose name means 'victory':

"Boudica was tall, terrible to look on and gifted with a powerful voice. A flood of bright red hair ran down to her knees; she wore a golden necklet made up of ornate pieces, a multi-coloured robe and over it a thick cloak held together by a brooch. She took up a long spear to cause dread in all who set eyes on her."