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From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick)
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Subject: Re: re: Women Heads of State (Summary)
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Date: Fri, 2-Nov-84 18:16:34 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  2 18:16:34 1984
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> Mary, Queen of Scots, warred with Britain (unsuccessfully).

I don't think so; what she definitely did do was get involved in schemes
with Disaffected English Catholics to depose her cousin Elizabeth. When
Mary was on the run from her own subjects, she fled to England where
Elizabeth had her imprisoned and eventually killed. They never met in
person, incidentally.

Additional WH'soS:

Vigdis Finbogasdottir was president of Iceland for a few years.

Bolivia had a woman president (I think her name is Viola something) but the 
military/cocaine interests found her continuing in office irksome.....

"Liluokalani, give as your little brown hannie" in Hawaii was the last 
independent ruler there.

And who could forget Tonga's outstanding queen Salote?



	As an aside (relevant to the question of whether women should take
their husbands' last names or not, note that Vigdis' title as president
was "President Vigdis". In Iceland they never got the all-but-universal
habit of family names; "Finbogasdottir" is a patronymic serving to give
President Vigdis some individuality among all the other Vigdises of Iceland.
But there'd be no point in addressing her as "Finbogasdottir"--there's
no reason, on the average, why there should be fewer Finbogas in her
parents' generation than Vigdises now. (This is all in Magnusson's, excuse
me, Magnus's, notes to the Icelandic sagas--see net.books!)