- A
dowager is a
widow or
widower who
holds a
title or
property – a "dower" –
derived from her or his
deceased spouse. As an adjective,
dowager usually...
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Empress Dowager Cixi [tsʰɹ̩̌.ɕì] (29
November 1835 – 15
November 1908), was a
Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who
effectively controlled the...
- A
queen dowager or
dowager queen (compare:
princess dowager or
dowager princess) is a
title or
status generally held by the
widow of a king. In the case...
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Empress dowager (also
dowager empress or
empress mother) (Chinese and ****anese: 皇太后; pinyin: huángtàihòu; rōmaji: Kōtaigō; Korean: 황태후 (皇太后); romaja:...
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honoured as
Empress Dowager Ci'an. As
empress dowager and one of the most
senior members of the
imperial family, she and
Empress Dowager Cixi
became co-regents...
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until her husband's
death in 1908,
after which she was
honoured as
Empress Dowager Longyu. She was
posthumously honoured with the
title Empress Xiaodingjing...
- marriage, she was the Lady Zhao;
after the king's death, she was the
Queen Dowager (Chinese: 太后). The
daughter of a
prominent family of Zhao, she was a concubine...
- Devonshire, DCVO (born
Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford and
latterly Deborah,
Dowager Duchess of Devonshire; 31
March 1920 – 24
September 2014) was an English...
- (17 June 2000). "Empress
Dowager Nagako;
Widow of ****an's Hirohito". Los
Angeles Times.
Retrieved 3
March 2023. "****an's
Dowager Empress Dead at 97". CBS...
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empress consort,
through her
husband Emperor Gaozong and then as an
empress dowager,
through her sons
Emperors Zhongzong and Ruizong, from 660 to 690, not...
