A Japanese empress or Elizabeth I would be great! Maybe it's just as well they don't make them! Hahah
Oddly, I have a few versions of Tsarina Alexandra. So they make a rulers wife, but not the female rulers. Probably bc she's russian, but still, sort of odd.
Well, throughout the history of monarchy, there are far fewer female monarchs than male. I don't think there's ever been a Japanese empress, in the sense of a woman who held the power. I don't think there was ever a Roman empress, in that sense, either. In Europe, the examples are relatively few, too, and that's one reason they're so well-known and remarkable.
I think you'll find kit figures, and if you look, you might find finished figures among the Russian connoisseur catalogs, too, of queens or empresses, not just consorts but rulers in their own right. I know that there are figures of Queen Elizabeth I (Stadden and Tradtion), Queen Victoria (various makers), Maria Theresia (Vertunni), and Catherine the Great, as well as her predecessor Elizabeth (I've seen them but don't recall the makers).
But your point is well-taken. Consider it an inheritance from the hobby's toy soldier origins. The boys who played with toy soldiers preferred kings and generals, and patriotic Britons would also want Good Queen Bess and Victoria, but there probably wasn't that much demand for others.
I think female rulers are relatively well-represented in the world of flats, too.
I was curious about this figure, because if she were in 54mm, I'd look for the casting, for my Seven Years War collection. It's piqued my curiosity and I'm now on the watch for one among the Russian sellers on eBay.
Prost!
Brad
