Ankhesenamum

She attempted to marry a Hittite prince after the death of her husband. WI: The marriage had occured. Would the Egyptians have accepted a Hittite as Pharoah?
 
She attempted to marry a Hittite prince after the death of her husband. WI: The marriage had occured. Would the Egyptians have accepted a Hittite as Pharoah?

I'm not the greatest when it comes to knowledge of the Hittites and Ancient Egyptians, but I doubt it. There's a lovely bit of cultural superiority within the Ancient Egyptian worldview.
 
No. Egyptians never would accept foreigner pharaoh. I don't know what kind of relationships between Hittites and Egyptians were then but Egyptians has been much bad experience about foreign rulers so they hardly accept Hittite pharaoh. And Egyptians were quiet natinalist people (not on same mind as on later millenia).
 
While I've pondered this one before, and find the possibilities intriguing, I can't see it working out in the long run. Given that the... mysterious... death of her proposed bridegroom en route started a war, I doubt the Hittites would take kindly to having him thrown out afterwards and yet the Egyptians won't be thrilled (to put it mildly) about having a foreign ruler.

Still, there must have been some reason that it seemed like a good idea to Ankhesenamun at the time. If she had some sort of base of support, combined with Hittite backing, we might end up with a brief but interesting episode in Egyptian history. (My money is on the royal couple getting deposed, possibly with Ankhesenamun getting her name excised from monuments and such, much like her father...)
 
Wasn't her reasoning that she couldn't marry below her? The son of a foreign king was the only distantly legitimate possibility available to her.
 
Either way, the Hittite prince is in for a world of trouble... For the Egyptians to accept him he would basically have to cease to be Hittite, fully adopting Egyptian cultural mores in the process... And that's assuming they even give him the chance to do that - the entire Egyptian government would be opposed to him.

Ankhesenamun, as Kaiphranos pointed out, had no real power base. Her only value was in that she could legitimize a lowborn pretender (Egyptian kings were legitimized in part by the lineage of their queens in certain circumstances, and the post-Tutankhamun certainly met those criteria), and that value wasn't even exclusive to her (Horemheb ultimately legitimized himself by marrying Mutbenret/Mutnedjmet, Ankhesenamun's aunt and Nefertiti's sister). The only way her marriage to a foreigner could go through is if she was a powerful ruler in her own right, with a sufficient enough power base to tell large parts of the Egyptian court to sit down and shut up.

BUT, that creates a further catch: If she's powerful enough to do the above, that essentially eliminates the need for a foreign husband. If she has an adequate power base, she can rule as a rare female pharaoh in her own right, and the marriage to the Hittite prince is rendered superfluous.
 
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