She was nobody’s Queen, she was not a princess.
Hatshepsut was Pharaoh and she was King of Egypt.
Politics being politics since time began, her reign was wiped from the history of Eygpt upon her death and her Stepson took the throne.
The reason was politics- pure and simple.
Short story is, her stepson, Thutmose III in her reign and far beyond was regarded as a great warrior, military commander, and military strategist. He was under her command at the time and it seemd to be a situation that suited them both.
When he took the throne it was far more important to establish him as a Pharoah, as God and Hatshepsut would have understood that. She had been his coregent- and Gods were not descendents of their coregents.
He didn’t remove her from History out of hatred or sexism, politics of the day did that and it’s worth reading up on.
What I want to write about today is this, if I could speak to one historical figure it was be Heshepsut.
Hatshepsut, was the female king of Egypt (reigned as coregent c. 1479–73 bce and in her own right c. 1473–58 bce) who attained unprecedented power for a woman, adopting the full titles and regalia of a pharaoh.
Hatshepsut had a daughter named Neferure and there is an empty tomb built into a cliff that is believed to be her daughter’s tomb.
When Howard Carter found it, all that was in the tomb were , bits of bone and scraps of wood and Neferure name on the wall.
I watched an an episode on cable about the re-discovery of this tomb- a team of archeologist went back to explore the tomb. They had to find a ladder to climb up to the tomb and just after they got inside a colony of bats flew out at the archeologists . They were pretty freaked out. I’m surprised nobody ran out of the tomb and plunged to a messy death.
I think that the tomb was unstable too and the film crew and the archeologists got their shots and hot footed it out of there talking about the instability of the tomb all the way down the ladder.
Anyway, that’s the excuse they gave for the short visit.
Ha! Unstable my foot, they were afraid of the bats.
So t his is what I would ask Hatshepsut-
that thing with the bats flying out at the camera crew-
that was you , wasn’t it?
Because had that been my daughter’s tomb, the tomb of a young woman who could have been King of Egpyt one day- like her Mother- I’d have set bats out on anyone disturbing her sleep. In her sleep after all, she can dream about who and what she could have been.
I’d want her to have that.
Neferure or Neferura (Ancient Egyptian: Nfrw-Rꜥ, meaning The Beauty of Re) was an Egyptian princess of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. She was the daughter of two pharaohs, Hatshepsut and Thutmose II.[1] She served in high offices in the government and the religious administration of Ancient Egypt.