Queen Hatshepsut was the fifth ruler of the 18th dynasty and was able to rise from princess to queen to pharaoh. She was supposedly born a beautiful child to the pharaoh Tuthmosis I and his queen Ahmose. Her family came from an ancestral line of strong and effective leaders who were devoted to Egypt. Her reign was the longest of all the female pharaohs.
After the death of her father, her half brother Tuthmosis II became king. When he became pharaoh, Tuthmosis had no choice but to marry a woman of the royal blood. Marriages between close relatives were usually within ancient Egypt's roy…
