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...The empress had first-hand experience of the smallpox — her future husband contracted the virus just before they were married and was permanently disfigured....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on October 22, 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...One included a line from a Tang dynasty poem about an empress who killed her children: “The melon of Huangtai cannot bear the picking again.”...
...That was the intention – not only of the Trumps, but of the gown’s creator, John Galliano, whose autumn/winter 2004 haute couture collection (whence that wedding gown originated) was dedicated to Empress...
...For instance, he once tweeted about Russian Empress Catherine the Great after reading a book by Robert Massie. One time he explained why he originally wanted to call the Model 3, Model E....
...I can take consolation from another of the great list-makers, the lady-in-waiting in the Empress Sadako’s court who drew up over 160 lists in The Pillow Book....
...The Ashmolean’s central parade of identikit 1970s-80s portraits — pinkish mask-faces, bright red lips, violet-blue eye shadow, soft-focus gazes of Iranian empress Farah Pahlavi, actress Pia Zadora, duty-free...
...Dubbed the “Empress of Fashion”, Vreeland (1903-1989) was fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar from 1936, before becoming editor-in-chief of American Vogue in 1962....
...back more than a hundred years: of a gift to Queen Victoria of a pair of spider silk bloomers hailing from Madagascar; of how a delicate yet spectacularly strong yarn found its way into stockings made for Empress...
...The value of the estate fell 1.3 per cent to £340m, excluding the nearby Empress State building, which rose 8.6 per cent in the period....
...On Monday, in a radical strategy presentation, Ms Hazlitt, “Empress” of GCap Media for less than eight weeks, voluntarily shrank her own imperial frontier....
...Oprah Winfrey, the reigning empress of talk shows and a huge brand in her own right, invited Bono on to her television show to launch Red in the US in October....
...As if all this were not bad enough for Mr Koizumi, he is also facing a revolt over his desire to pass legislation clearing the way for an empress to ascend the Chrysanthemum throne....
...Take and Give Needs, the wedding services company, leapt by 13.8 per cent to Y148,000 after the Imperial Palace formally set the wedding date of Princess Sayako, only daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress...
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