empress

At the same time, she draws inspiration from the women in Ethiopian history who fought for the country’s independence, including an empress who went into battle against the Italian army.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

A Tang dynasty empress is believed to have sent two to Japan in the seventh century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

That is the year Russian empress Catherine the Great is said to have founded the city, although it has been widely questioned in recent years.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

I had done so many things, but people probably knew me most for “Maleficent,” but it was then fun to be in “The Great” and I’m playing an empress, but she’s not the Disney version.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

I’ve seen the imperial family several times, the emperor an ugly, hard-looking man, the empress pale and pretty, but dressed in bad taste, I thought—purple dress, green hat, and yellow gloves.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Recording from his home in Pasadena, he has played men and women of all ages, races, nationalities and abilities, as well as “postapocalyptic people living in trees and empresses of fictitious planets,” he notes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025

The organisation has close ties with the imperial family, with previous empresses serving as honorary presidents.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2024

For a long while in history, the women cheered in Canyon Of Heroes parades tended to be queens or princesses or empresses.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2019

I postponed my research on Sims, believing him to be an altruistic outlier who could be a balm in my distressing work: someone who, according to one statue’s inscription, treated “alike empresses and slaves”.

From Nature ● Sep. 17, 2017

It was not long, however, before an edict was issued degrading the prince, whose growing power and arrogance the empresses feared.

From Oriental Women by Edward Bagby Pollard