Shin Bo-Me was queen to five consecutive kings of Ava

Ava Kingdom

The Ava Kingdom was the dominant kingdom that ruled upper Burma from 1364 to 1555. Founded in 1364, the kingdom was the successor state to the petty kingdoms that had ruled central Burma since the collapse of Pagan Empire in the late 13th century...

. The ethnic Shan queen was considered a great beauty. She was the favorite and chief queen of Minkhaung I

Minkhaung I

Minkhaung I of Ava was the fourth king of Ava from 1401 to 1422. Minkhaung is best remembered in Burmese history for his epic struggles against King Razadarit of Hanthawaddy Pegu in the Forty Years' War , and for being the father of Crown Prince Minyekyawswa, who did most of the fighting.Minkhaung...

. In 1426, she engineered the death of the next two kings Thihathu and Minhlange

Minhlange

Minhlange was the sixth king of Ava for three months in 1426. Minhlange was just about nine when he was made king. His father King Thihathu had been killed in an ambush by raiders from the Shan State of Hsipaw...

. She personally poisoned an 8-year-old Minhlange and put her lover Kale Kyetaungnyo

Kale Kyetaungnyo

Kale Kyetaungnyo was the seventh king of Ava who reigned for seven months from 1426 to 1427. He came to the Ava throne with the help of Queen Shin Bo-Me who had engineered the deaths of her husband King Thihathu and his eight-year-old son King Minhlange in 1426 to put her lover on the throne...

 on the Ava throne, and again became the chief queen. In 1427, Kyetaungnyo was overthrown by Mohnyin Thado

Mohnyin Thado

Mohnyin Thado was the eighth king of Ava who reigned from 1427 to 1440. The ethnic Burman saopha of Mohnyin came to power after overthrowing King Kale Kyetaungnyo and his queen Shin Bo-Me in 1427. His reign marks the plateauing of Ava's power...

, who subsequently made Bo-Me a junior queen.