What caused Hatshepsut to break so radically with the traditional role of queen regent? A social or military crisis? A desire for power? A belief that she had the same right to role as a man? No one really know. Maybe she felt, as a direct descendant of the pharaohs than Thutmose III. At first she made no secret of her sex- in images her body is unmistakably a woman's- but later she is depicted as a male king, with headdress and beard, standing imposingly with legs apart.