Byzantine Queens

Byzantine Queens was born from images my son Milo has been sending me this last month on his first trip to Italy. He is visiting a friend in Florence and Rome and has photographed the inside of several Byzantine Churches. This inspired me to read more about that time in history. I learned that Emperors and Empresses ruled together, yet there was not much information about the Queens at first pass through. The queen in a position of power, yet still invisible/hidden