Why do people do this?
Cleopatra was never the Queen of Egypt. Queen in ancient Egypt meant the wife of the pharaoh. She WAS the pharaoh. Which meant she was a female king.
Cleopatra was never the Queen of Egypt. Queen in ancient Egypt meant the wife of the pharaoh. She WAS the pharaoh. Which meant she was a female king.
Because there is no such thing as the term ‘female king’ so in all reality she was still a queen, she’s been called queen for generations since her reigning era and even after death she is still called queen because female king is not a real term