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The following is a list of empresses and queens consort of China. China has periodically been divided into kingdoms as well as united under empires, resulting in consorts titled both queen and empress. The empress title could also be given posthumously.
Empress of China, also known as Chinese Queen, was a three-masted, square-rigged sailing ship of 360 tons, [3] initially built in 1783 for service as a privateer. [5] After the Treaty of Paris brought a formal end to the American Revolutionary War , the vessel was refitted for commercial purposes.
Official Chinese histories list only one reigning empress, Empress Wu of Tang. However, there have been numerous cases in Chinese history where a woman was the actual power behind the imperial throne. Empress Dowager Cixi, Regent of China considered de facto sovereign of China for 47 years during AD 1861–1908
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Gretna is the second-largest city in, and parish seat of, Jefferson Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. [4] [5] Gretna lies on the west bank of the Mississippi ...
An empress dowager who lived through the reigns of at least two subsequent emperors would be called grand empress dowager (太皇太后; tàihuángtàihòu). The other imperial consorts of the former emperor would be addressed as dowager (太; tài ) according to their rank, but it was not required.
RMS Empress of Australia [14] 1913 1919 SS Tirpitz (1919–1921); SS Empress of China (1921) Atlantic, 1919–1939; war service, 1939–1951 1952 1922 RMS Empress of Scotland [15] 1905 1906 SS Kaiserin Auguste Victoria (1906–1919, 1919–1921); USS Kaiserin August Victoria (1919) Atlantic, 1906–1914; inactive, 1914–1919; Atlantic, 1920 ...
The Empress of China (simplified Chinese: 武媚娘传奇; traditional Chinese: 武媚娘傳奇; pinyin: Wǔ Mèiniáng chuánqí) is a 2014 Chinese television series based on events in the 7th and 8th-century Tang dynasty, starring producer Fan Bingbing as the titular character Wu Zetian—the only female emperor (empress regnant) in Chinese history.