empress

The former empress was driven into exile with her husband, late pro-Western shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in January 1979 during a popular revolution that ousted the monarchy and brought the Islamic republic to power.

From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026

I had done so many things, but people probably knew me most for “Maleficent,” but it was then fun to be in “The Great” and I’m playing an empress, but she’s not the Disney version.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

Among the stolen pieces was a large, diamond-encrusted bow brooch that belonged to the same empress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025

A crown of the empress Eugénie was left at the scene and is being examined to see if it is damaged.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025

She moved slowly, with the calm importance of an empress.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck

Recording from his home in Pasadena, he has played men and women of all ages, races, nationalities and abilities, as well as “postapocalyptic people living in trees and empresses of fictitious planets,” he notes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025

For a long while in history, the women cheered in Canyon Of Heroes parades tended to be queens or princesses or empresses.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2019

I postponed my research on Sims, believing him to be an altruistic outlier who could be a balm in my distressing work: someone who, according to one statue’s inscription, treated “alike empresses and slaves”.

From Nature ● Sep. 17, 2017

Regent uncles, dowager empresses, concubines, brothers… all end up doing the wrong thing.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2012

This is shown by the fact that no less than nine empresses have ruled the land.

From Oriental Women by Edward Bagby Pollard