abstract:Great Royal Wife, or alternatively Chief King's Wife (Ancient Egyptian: ḥmt nswt wrt), is the term used to refer to the chief wife of the pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. The former is also, in the form of the simplification Great Wife, applied to more contemporary royal consorts in states all over modern Africa.
The effigy of Nefertiti, who was the GreatRoyalWife (chief consort) of the Egyptian Pharoah Akhenaten, has been considered for centuries as one of the first commercialized ideals of beauty.