Bouddica, Cleopatra, Zenobia of Palmyra. The Dowager Empress of the Manchus and the Boxer Rebellion. And Queen Victoria presided over quite a few as well.
Queen Elizabeth I kicked Spanish @ss. Of course, strictly speaking she never had any children, but she was one mean mother.
And then there was her sister, Bloody Mary.
Eleanor of Aquitaine led troops in battle.
The Queen of England, Spain and the Netherlands caused a little thing that was referred to as the real First World War.