Road to Empress II chronicles a rise from nobody to royalty. Our heroine is a Ganye Temple nun who must deal with members at court and influential people to work her way up to the empress. The sequel ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- One of the most iconic towers in San Francisco's Chinatown is set to become a new cultural destination. Community and city leaders unveiled plans Thursday to transform the ...

The final return of the The Empress is nearing – but fans will have to wait a while longer yet before they learn the fates of Sisi and Franz. Season 3 of Netflix‘s German-language period drama was ...

Japanese royalty Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako may have set their summer agenda. According to a new report by Japanese outlet Nippon TV, the couple is expected to make state visits to Belgium ...

Palace intrigue is a popular Chinese pastime. In many movies and TV shows, imperial princes, concubines, and other palace personnel navigate forbidden romance and murder plots while jockeying for a ...

Adella Catherine Frank, daughter of Joseph and Mary Heuring Kirchdoerfer, was born Jan. 17, 1928, in Cape Girardeau and departed this life Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026, at Saint Francis Medical Center in ...

Nearly 70 per cent of Japanese want the law to be changed to permit an empress, with observers suggesting that the recent emergence of Princess Aiko on the international stage is fanning a groundswell ...

When it comes to televised "junk food," a lot of people point to reality TV as their guilty pleasure. But my guilty pleasures are Chinese historical dramas — called C-dramas by those who enjoy them — ...

When the sinking of the White Ship decimated England’s line of succession and threw the kingdom into chaos in 1120, one teenage girl was the only heir to the British throne left standing. Even with ...

Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837–1898), better known as Princess Sisi, became an icon of the Habsburg Empire when, at just 16 years old, she wed her first cousin, Emperor Franz Joseph, and ...