empress
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While government ministers tried to turn Russia into a constitutional monarchy, Rasputin offered spiritual guidance to the czar and empress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 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
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
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
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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
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
Regent uncles, dowager empresses, concubines, brothers… all end up doing the wrong thing.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2012
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 Hermann Schoenfeld
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