- 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 (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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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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attracting much po****r sympathy.
Despite this,
Henry acknowledged her only as
dowager princess of Wales.
After being banished from
court by Henry, Catherine...
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empress consort through her
husband Emperor Gaozong and
later as
empress dowager through her sons
Emperors Zhongzong and Ruizong, from 660 to 690. She subsequently...
- imbalances. In the old, it may be a case of
hyperkyphosis and
called "
dowager's hump".
About one
third of the most
severe hyperkyphosis cases in older...
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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...
- 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...
- Devonshire, DCVO (born
Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford and
latterly Deborah,
Dowager Duchess of Devonshire; 31
March 1920 – 24
September 2014), was an English...
