• Her Mother was the ambitious Nefertiti the chief wife of Akhenaten. King Tut's mother was Kiya
  • Nefertiti had only produced daughters and arranged for her daughter Ankhesenpaaten to marry Tutankhamun ensuring that Nefertiti would still have considerable influence with the new Pharaoh when Akhenaten died
• The parents of Tutankhamun and Ankhesenpaaten initiated a highly unpopular religious revolution which changed Ancient Egypt from a polytheistic religion, with many gods, to monotheism (the worship of one god)
• After his death Ankhesenpaaten was forced to marry the Pharaoh Ay, who was also her grandfather (Ay was the father of Nefertiti). She even tried to avoid this by trying to arrange a marriage with a Hittite prince. The Hittites were the arch enemies of the Egyptians and this act would have been viewed as totally treacherous
• Another Mysterious death: Ankhesenpaaten died mysteriously shortly after the death of King Tut sometime during the brief rule of Ay, between 1325 BC  and 1321 BC

Did Ankhesenpaaten Kill King Tut? - Did Ankhesenpaaten have the Opportunity?
As his wife Ankhesenpaaten would have had easy access to Tutankhamun. They would have naturally also had time alone together. Ankhesenpaaten would have had the opportunity to kill King Tut, had she wanted.

Did Ankhesenpaaten Kill King Tut? - Did Ankhesenpaaten have a Motive?
The images of Tutankhamun and King Tut depict a happy couple. But were these scenes of domestic bliss accurate? Their marriage failed to produce any live, healthy heirs - did Ankhesenpaaten blame her husband for this? King Tut was her half-brother and three years younger, did she resent the marriage which she was pushed into by her ambitious mother Nefertiti? Ankhesenpaaten would have been strongly influenced by her parents Akhenaten and Nefertiti and their belief in the new religion which worshipped the sole god Aten. Did she think that Tutankhamun was weak when pressure pushed him into making compromises regarding the new religion and moving back to the old religion and worshipping all the old gods, the chief of which was the god Amun? During this period even their names were changed from Tutankhaten to Tutankhamun and  Ankhesenpaaten to Ankhesenamun. A year after changing their names Tutankhamun,  Ankhesenpaaten and the royal court, moved from their home in Amarna back to the old capital at Thebes, the center of worship of Amun and the power base of the Amun priests. We know that Ankhesenpaaten was head strong and as the daughter and wife of a pharaoh used to getting her own way. Did resentment build up in Ankhesenpaaten to such an extent that she would kill Tutankhamun? It looks as if Ankhesenpaaten did have motives for killing King Tut, her husband. 

Did Ankhesenpaaten Kill King Tut?
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