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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt Royal Arch and service—central to the lessonsAn engrossing biography of the longest reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power. Hatshepsut the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father's family. Her failure to produce a male heir, however, paved the way for her improbable rule as a cross dressing king. At just over twenty, Hatshepsut out maneuvered the mother of Thutmose