Status Updates From A Year in the Life of Ancie...

"Loyal to his ruler, Tuthmosis III, Khary despised Hatshepsut, the king’s stepmother, who had briefly usurped his throne."

Brief? If you want to call 21 years of successful rule brief. Actually Thutmose III probably did not despise Hatshepsut, as the erasures of her monuments as monarch did not occur until the end of his reign (probably something to do with a succession crisis). Outdated research plaguing this book.

"It was probably customary for the king to marry the chief royal heiress to ensure his succession to the throne"

The author IS promoting the Heiress Theory. I find it strange why authors today give it credit when it was thoroughly disproven over 30 years ago. Do these authors disregard the findings? Or have they simply done poor research from very outdated books?

"Each king was believed to be the physical offspring of the leading god of the dynasty, born to the chief wife of the previous ruler"

Uh... no, that's incorrect. Many of the kings were actually born to secondary wives or even concubines, who only when their son became king were given higher title. If the author is referring to the Heiress Theory, that was disproven as long ago as the 1980s!