A dowager is a widow or widower who holds a title or property – a "dower" – derived from her or his deceased spouse. As an adjective, dowager usually...

Empress Dowager Cixi [tsʰɹ̩̌.ɕì] (29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908), was a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who effectively controlled the...

Empress dowager (also dowager empress or empress mother) (Chinese and Japanese: 皇太后; pinyin: huángtàihòu; rōmaji: Kōtaigō; Korean: 황태후 (皇太后); romaja:...

A queen dowager or dowager queen (compare: princess dowager or dowager princess) is a title or status generally held by the widow of a king. In the case...

honoured as Empress Dowager Ci'an. As empress dowager and one of the most senior members of the imperial family, she and Empress Dowager Cixi became co-regents...

until her husband's death in 1908, after which she was honoured as Empress Dowager Longyu. She was posthumously honoured with the title Empress Xiaodingjing...

Devonshire, DCVO (born Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford and latterly Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire; 31 March 1920 – 24 September 2014) was an English...

marriage, she was the Lady Zhao; after the king's death, she was the Queen Dowager (Chinese: 太后). The daughter of a prominent family of Zhao, she was a concubine...

empress consort, through her husband Emperor Gaozong and then as an empress dowager, through her sons Emperors Zhongzong and Ruizong, from 660 to 690, not...

(17 June 2000). "Empress Dowager Nagako; Widow of Japan's Hirohito". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 3 March 2023. "Japan's Dowager Empress Dead at 97". CBS...