Hatshepsut and Thutmose III
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5. Assess the relationship between Hatshepsut and Thutmose III.
There have been many theories regarding the relationship between Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, yet none have evidence strong enough to support the idea that there was any conflict between the two.
Although she officially ruled jointly with Thutmose III, there is no doubt that Hatshepsut was the dominant partner. Most co-regencies last for little longer than a few years of the younger partner's reign, but Hatshepsut and Thutmose III's lasted for thirteen years. Hatshepsut was thirty-seven when Thutmose came to the throne. She was his tutor, aunt and step-mother and was arranging for her daughter, Neferure, to marry Thutmose III, Thutmose II's son to Isis.
It wasn't until about two to seven years into Thutmose III's reign that Hatshepsut proclaimed herself as pharaoh. There was no doubt that by the twentieth year of their reign, Hatshepsut was the senior pharaoh.
On the stela of Nakht from Sinai, dated year twenty, both Hatshepsut and Thutmose III are represented as on equal footings offering gifts to the gods...