The Life and Rule of Cleopatra Cleopatra was born in 69 B.C. in Alexandria which was the capital of Egypt. Her father was the pharaoh, Ptolemy XII. Cleopatra’s mother was probably his sister, Cleopatra V Tryphaena. The family was Macedonian, not really Egyptian. Her father, Ptolemy XII was a weak and cruel ruler and in 58 B. C. was overthrown by the people. He fled to Rome and his eldest daughter, Bernice, took the thrown, she married her cousin but soon had him strangled because she wanted to marry again. In 55 B.C. Ptolemy XII returned and had Bernice beheaded and her husband executed. Cleopatra VII was the pharaohs oldest child and when he dies in 51 B.C., she and her younger brother Ptomely XIII took over the thrown. Cleopatra became queen when she was around the ages of 17 or 18.She really was not all that pretty even though today we make her....

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