empress

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The former empress was driven into exile with her husband, late pro-Western shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in January 1979 during a popular revolution that ousted the monarchy and brought the Islamic republic to power.

From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026

Among the stolen pieces was a large, diamond-encrusted bow brooch that belonged to the same empress.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

She credits much of her fearlessness as a performer to her time spent on the Hulu series “The Great,” on which she played a fictionalized version of Russian empress Catherine the Great.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2024

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

He’d chosen a rose because he thought that was the most royal flower and Lynn was his little empress, and he’d chosen white because it was angelic.

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata