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But it was a 2011 Chinese TV show called Empresses in the Palace - a fictional tale of an imperial court - that raised the remedy's profile.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2024

In the Imperial Red City itself the three Dowager Empresses, relicts of the late Emperor, looked up from their tea.

From Time Magazine Archive

The two Empresses did not think much of him, though he was their nephew and a prince.

From Time Magazine Archive

History indicates that Japan's 124 Goddess-descended Emperors have been happy to accept from the fighting Fujiwara Clan a phenomenally long number of Fujiwara women as Empresses.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bishops and Exarchs, and jewelled Empresses, and half Oriental Autocrats, saints and bedizened court-ladies, and barbarian guards and wicked chamberlains; I know not what they are.

From Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua by Lee, Vernon