
Well-known ancient monarch Cleopatra is only one of a long line of Egyptian queens spanning 3,000 years.

Cleopatra II, namesake of the great Cleopatra VII, had a reign of incest, murder, rape and mutilation; she wielded great power and would do anything to keep it, and she saw her dynasty torn apart by hatred but also saved it from destruction.

Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Cleopatra the Great and Mark Antony, saw her dynasty collapse amid her parents' defeat and suicide; taken to Rome as a prisoner, all looked lost for Selene, but she rose from the embers to marry the African king Juba II.