It tells the story of Boudicca, the ancient Queen of the British tribe known as the Iceni, and glorifies her struggle against the Roman occupiers of Britain. In Boudicca, Boudicca was designed, both by character and by costume, to resemble the then-deposed Queen Elizabeth. The story follows the Iceni army from its humble beginnings when it first revolts against the Romans through a series of victories before Boudicca, inspired to overconfidence and against the advice of her right hand man General Caratach, overextends her forces and endures a hard reversal of fortune. In the final scene, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus executes Boudicca, but not before the queen defiantly prophesies that "a thousand years and more hence" another queen would rule in Britain, one who would finish what she had start