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
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
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
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