empress
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This upcoming Spring/Summer 2026 season has been inspired by Vietnam's former ruling Nguyen dynasty, notably Emperor Khai Dinh and the last empress consort, Nam Phuong, who both lived under colonial French rule.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 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
Her climb from lifestyle author to homemaking empress, along with her fall and brief imprisonment, spawned endless special reports, gossip columns, parodies, and unauthorized biographies both serious and salacious.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2024
The state visit to the UK by the emperor and empress of Japan will go ahead later this month, says Buckingham Palace.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2024
I’ve seen the imperial family several times, the emperor an ugly, hard-looking man, the empress pale and pretty, but dressed in bad taste, I thought—purple dress, green hat, and yellow gloves.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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
The two empresses were leaders in the new fashion.
From Roman Women by Alfred Brittain
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