Word: empress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good sense. Arriving in Russia a bewildered, unsophisticated German child-princess, she learns she is not wanted by the heir apparent, Grand Duke Peter (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). But she changes his mind when she inadvertently meets him. Married, she wins the trust of Russia's clever, lustful Empress Elizabeth (Flora Robson). The Grand Duke is moody, ill-tempered, pathological. He seeks Catherine's bed only when-like Queen Christina under different circumstances-she says she has had 17 lovers. When Elizabeth dies the new Emperor Peter III rules recklessly, becomes increasingly suspicious of Catherine and of all others...
...created the above lies myself, but if you want an absolutely authentic lie which provoked an international incident take the one the Chinese told about the Emperor of Japan. They said it was his fault that the Empress didn't have a son for so long. The Japanese said it was her fault and they ought to know. Anyhow Japanese anger at this widely printed Chinese lie was one of the things which provoked the Japanese attack on Shanghai. I was there and I know...
Rasputin and The Empress ( Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...nameless, seven-day-old Crown Prince (TIME, Jan. 1). While he was washed, the voices of the savants reading from ancient books were louder than the bowstrings. Clean after his first bath, the babe was swathed in a kimono of heavy white silk, the gift of Dowager Empress Sadako, most revered female in Japan. Only then was he ready to be named...
Name in hand, the Grand Chamberlain passed into the bedchamber of Empress Nagako and exhibited it to her. He then laid the block of wood reverently in the Crown Prince's crib...