BOUDICA WHO?

Have recently finished reading a book about the Boudican revolt (Boudica's Last Stand, The History Press, by John Waite) which does its level best to leave Norfolk out of the story, or at least leave its role unacknowleged. Indeed, Norfolk does not even appear in the Index, and Norfolk experts do not seem to have been consulted.
As so very little is known about her, as there are so few concrete facts, and as personal interpretation is such a large part of the legend, the writer is perhaps entitled to do this. But to my mind, it provides a curiously skewed approach to the subject.
Who was she? Frankly, no-one knows, and indeed we might know nothing about her at all were it not for a couple of Roman writers who put stylus to wax tablet many decades after the actual events of AD60/61. But they were of the winning side, remember, and they were writing for their own audiences. So even their works need to be taken with a pinch of salt. A balancing factor is that evidence from the ground does appear to support the general thrust of their stories. Archaeology and written history seem to coincide, more or less. What is missing is detail. Details like, who was she, and where did she come from?
Prasutagus probably became top man in the troubled Iceni federation (based in Norfolk, north Suffolk, and parts of the Fens) in around AD47, or at about the time of the first Iceni uprising against the occupiers. The Iceni tribal groupings may have been worryingly divided at this point (pro- and anti-Roman) causing internal strife; for while some took to armed resistance in AD47, it seems equally clear that some others - perhaps a majority - did not. The rebels were slaughtered, anyway, possibly at Stonea; and afterwards it was important, from a Roman standpoint, to try to heal the rift and reunite the groups.
And so Prasutagus (evidently pro-Roman) came to the fore, and most likely in the mid- or late AD40s he takes himself a wife. At this point, a fog swirls in and obscures the reality. Who was she? Where did she come from?    
Subsequent events (ie, the AD60/61 revolt) suggest she knew the Romans and may even have had dealings with their officials, or had watched them in action. She may have been versed in military matters and Druidic ritual; and she may have been of equal social status to Prasutagus, She was undoubtedly charismatic. Indeed, and as an aristocrat, her dress and lifestyle may have been influenced by Roman fashion.
But if their marriage really was an attempt to heal wounds and bring harmony to the bickering Iceni, if they had not a single 'palace' but a number of 'homes' in various parts of the area, then she could have come from either 'side' of the debate.
Was she from an 'old' ritualistic Druidic background based in north or north-west Norfolk, perhaps? Or a child of one of the other anti-Roman groupings perhaps in the Fens? From the neighbouring Corieltaurvi tribe, or the Catuvellauni? Or even from further afield?
I still like to think she did come from Norfolk, though. But short of a major archaeological breakthrough, we may never know. Meanwhile, the supposition goes on.