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Born Ankhesenpaaton (she lives for the Aton), Ankhesenamun, or "The Girl Queen," was the third of six known daughters of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaton and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti. At the age of eleven, she became the Great Royal Wife of Tutankhamun, also known as "The Boy King," and her powers as Co-Regent of the most powerful nation on the planet were equal in every way to his. In the 9th year of his reign, at the age of 18, Tutankhamun died suddenly and mysteriously, leaving the girl queen alone and without an heir at the age of twenty-one.