- 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...
- 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 Cixi (Mandarin pronunciation: [tsʰɹ̩̌.ɕì]; 29
November 1835 – 15
November 1908) was a
Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who effectively...
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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: Hwang...
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honored 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...
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Empress Dowager He (何太后) may
refer to:
Empress He (Han dynasty) (died 189),
consort and
empress dowager of the Han
dynasty Empress Dowager He (Eastern...
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paramount power.
After Gaozu's death, she was
honoured as
empress dowager and
regent during the
short reigns of
Emperor **** and his
successors Emperor...
- was
honoured as
Empress Dowager Zhaosheng during the
reign of her son, Fulin, the
Shunzhi Emperor, and as
Grand Empress Dowager Zhaosheng during the reign...
- 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...
