![]() ![]() Hatshepsut was a master strategist, cloaking her political power plays in the veil of piety and sexual reinvention. At just over twenty, Hatshepsut ascended to the rank of pharaoh in an elaborate coronation ceremony that set the tone for her spectacular reign as co-regent with Thutmose III, the infant king whose mother Hatshepsut out-maneuvered for a seat on the throne. ![]() Her failure to produce a male heir was ultimately the twist of fate that paved the way for her improbable rule as a cross-dressing king. Hatshepsut'the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty'was born into a privileged position of the royal household, and she was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father's family. ![]() An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power. ![]()
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