Queen Victoria and Beyond

Canada, as you know, still celebrates a national holiday in honour of Queen Victoria.
I came across this oblique & tendentious article in the Daily Telegraph on the predominance of women at the political head of England following on from Victoria's eminent sixty-four year regnancy:

Have you noticed that modern Britain is the most matriarchal society in the history of the world? The four most famous figures in the public service since the war have been women - the Queen Mother, the Queen, Diana, Princess of Wales and Margaret Thatcher.