In a fantastical steampunk version of ancient China, legendary sleuth Detective Dee returns from exile to help solve a series of suspicious murders on the eve of the coronation of the country's first empress.
In 1965, Mr. Sarria proclaimed himself the first Empress of San Francisco and founded a gay rights organization called the Imperial Court de San Francisco (playing off a tradition of comically exaggerated royal titles among gay men).
Andy Lau plays the title character, who must unravel a fiendishly intricate plot — involving talking deer, spontaneous combustion and medieval bureaucratic procedure — intended to disrupt the coronation of China's first empress.
First Empress: the Demoted Empress, from the Borjigit clan of the Khorchin Mongols; niece of Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang.
Wang Zhengjun (71 BC–13 AD) was first empress, then empress dowager, and finally grand empress dowager during the reigns of the Emperors Yuan (r. 49 33 BC), Cheng (r. 33 7 BC), and Ai (r. 7 1 BC), respectively.
The eighth-century empress Irene served for years as regent for her young son.
The fourth-century empress Pulcheria, for example, got amazing mileage out of advertising her sustained virginity, through which she sought identification with the Virgin herself.
554 Yamato, Japan April 15, 628 Yamato, Japan Suiko, in full Suiko Tennō (born 554, Yamato, Japan died April 15, 628, Yamato) first reigning empress of Japan in recorded history, the wife of the emperor Bidatsu (reigned 572 585) and the daughter of the emperor Kimmei.
His third show at the gallery tells three stories of princesses who struggled with fame — who were buffeted by public opinion (Jackie Onassis), victimized by politics (Sissi, a nineteenth-century empress of Austria), or desperate for the spotlight (Jerry Hall, looking her most feral).
