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Historical person
1851–1918
Taytu Betul was empress of Ethiopia and wife of Menelik II. She was politically influential at court and is remembered for her role in resisting Italian expansion, including the crisis that culminated at Adwa.
Wilbur Smith’s King of Kings places Taytu Betul within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and military command and battlefield decision-making.
Series
This crossover sequence brings the Ballantyne and Courtney families together during the late nineteenth-century contest for power in Africa. Its action moves from the Mahdist siege of Khartoum to Ethiopia’s resistance to Italian invasion and the opening of the Second Boer War.
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