Word: empresse
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...stated, the grandson of the Empress Dowager's early lover, he is also her grandnephew...
...your account of the coronation of Henry Pu Yi, you made a statement which I believe to be incorrect. You stated that this young man is the son of a nephew of the old Dowager Empress...
...Continued on p. 63) the former Empress. He is the grandson of the man whom she had loved and wished to marry when she was young. She was forced to marry another man for reasons of state, but never forgot her first love, and it was his grandson whom she placed upon the throne at the death of the Emperor, her nephew. . . . EFFIE M. SMITH...
...things that filled the World from then until he died in 1911 - War with Spain, the assassination of McKinley, the Roosevelt Administration, the election of Taft - Joseph Pulitzer saw almost nothing. Last week Joseph Pulitzer Jr., 49, was cruising around the world with his wife on the Empress of Britain. When the huge Canadian Pacific liner reached Manila, the publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch had to cancel a speech he was to have made at a newspaper dinner. From his cabin word went forth that his eyes had suddenly failed him. His left eye was reported completely blind...
...where both Premier Gömbös and the Regent, Admiral Horthy, were responsible for smashing Emperor Karl's pitiful attempt to come back in 1921. Last week Archduke Otto remained safely in his mouldy castle in a wood near Brussels, refused ail interviews. His mother, the Empress Zita, now a dour-faced widow, was in Paris at the bedside of her brother, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, desperately ill with an infected heart. The body of Otto's father, the Emperor Karl, lay in a rusty vault on the island of Madeira under a heap...