empress
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“Russia and Western Europe converged” under the empress, at least for a short while.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
In a rare interview, his mother, the former empress Farah Pahlavi told AFP from her home in Paris in written answers to questions there was "no turning back" after the wave of protests.
From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026
A crown of the empress Eugénie was left at the scene and is being examined to see if it is damaged.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025
Her climb from lifestyle author to homemaking empress, along with her fall and brief imprisonment, spawned endless special reports, gossip columns, parodies, and unauthorized biographies both serious and salacious.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2024
The girl, who would grow up without a father, was named Theodora, after the scandalous empress of Byzantium whom Sourmelina admired.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
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
As explained earlier, a few empresses wielded great power.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
For she deserves to be revered as the most imperial of all empresses.
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann
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