Just as women today face obstacles from a society that equates authority with masculinity, Hatshepsut shrewdly operated the levers of power to emerge as Egypt’s second female pharaoh. Hatshepsut was a master strategist, cloaking her political power plays in the veil of piety and sexual reinvention. Carnehan asks the narrator to deliver a message to his friend, Daniel Dravot. A royal woman had less rights than the average Egyptian, it could be argued, since it was impossible to divorce a king, the Golden Horus himself.
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.Īt 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. The Man Who Would Be King The narrator, a newspaper correspondent, is traveling across India by second-class train when he meets Peachey Carnehan, a white man planning to extort money from a local prince. “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 in 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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