Artist’s impression of Verica as a woman, wearing iron age tunic and shawl, a gold brooch and gold torc.
An artist’s impression of Verica, a Romanised Briton who controlled parts of what is now southern Hampshire and West Sussex, as a woman. Photograph: Handout
An artist’s impression of Verica, a Romanised Briton who controlled parts of what is now southern Hampshire and West Sussex, as a woman. Photograph: Handout
Historians say King Verica persuaded Rome to invade Britain. But could Verica actually have been a queen?

Controversial theory that Verica, who incited Emperor Claudius’s AD43 landing, was a woman could put a new spin on British history if true