Footnote 1 Diplomatic marriages were a common way of establishing friendly relations between nations but, in the case of ancient Egypt, they always meant that foreign princes moved to the Egyptian court. Princesses were never sent to live in foreign countries. A famous case is the attempted, but failed, marriage between an Egyptian princess and a prince of Mittani, which had to be cancelled because the prince never arrived in Egypt. The marriage of King Solomon to Pharaoh’s daughter seems therefore unlikely, at least in this form.