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New York Times
The Last Empress
New York Times
SHE almost squeaked through unscathed. A product of a generation of patrician Americans who lived by the dictum that a woman's name ought to appear in print only at birth, marriage and death, Rachel (Bunny) Lambert Mellon, the widow of the banking heir ...


 
The Dragon Lady?
Bangkok Post
THE LAST EMPRESS by Hannah Pakula 790 pp 2010 Phoenix paperback. Available at Asia Books and leading bookshops, 850 baht. China had two major exceptions: May-ling Soong (the wife of Chiang Kai-shek) and Jiang Qing (the wife of Mao Zedong).


 
China's silken touch on display
Victoria Times Colonist
By Amy Smart, Times Colonist May 3, 2012 Barry Till, curator of Asian arts, highlights a robe worn by the last empress of China, part of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria exhibit Silk Splendour: Textiles of Late Imperial China (1644-1911).


 
Telegraph.co.uk
Queen's Diamond Jubilee: How the monarchy got its mojo back
Telegraph.co.uk
People queued all night to see Elizabeth, the last Queen-Empress, lie in state in Westminster Hall in 2002, and the Mall was full for the Golden Jubilee that same summer. The Diamond Jubilee weekend will be as electric. Republicans will fret, looking ...
The last Diamond Jubilee: How Britain was very different but strangely similar ...Mirror.co.uk
Queen Elizabeth's Exclusive Diamond Jewellery Collection to be Displayed [PHOTOS]IBTimes.co.uk
Duchess Kate in elegant pink charms World Royals at Queen's Jubilee Lunch (Video)allvoices
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Papa bare
Boston Herald
Joan Chen (“The Last Emperor”) is a riotous delight as a corrupt Chinese empress. Parker Posey (“A Mighty Wind”) appears as his fourth and final wife, Mary Welsh, and oddly, even as the film jumps about 20 years into the future into Papa's final, ...

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Silk Splendour: Textiles of China's Last Imperial Dynasty
US-China Institute
As well the Art Gallery just purchased an informal robe once worn by the Last Empress of China. Empress Wan Rang (1906-46), married the last emperor in 1922 when she was 17. The actress, Joan Chen, played her in the movie – The Last Emperor.


 
Private funeral for Donna Summer
Amsterdam News
“The Empress of R&B,” Natasha C. Coward is heating up the last of spring and the beginning of summer with performances all over the Big Apple. The singalicious songbird, whose hit CD “No Warning Signs,” is sizzling on the charts, has joined the cast of ...