The Woman Who Would be KingBy: Kara Cooney Hatshepsut, the daughter of a general who took Egypt's throne without status as a kings son and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty, was born into a privileged position of the royal household. Married to her brother, she was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her fathers family. Her failure to produce a male heir was ultimately the twist of fate that paved the way for her inconceivable rule as a cross