Grand empress dowager

The title Grand Empress Dowager (simplified and traditional Chinese: 太皇太后, pinyin tài huáng tài hòu, Japanese: たいこうたいごう) was given to the grandmother or a woman from the grandmother generation of the Chinese, Korean. Japanese dynastic ruler. Some grand empress dowagers held regency within the beginning years of reign of an underage or young emperor. Nevertheless the most prominent and infamous dowagers extended long periods of regency even if the emperor was matured enough to govern alone, which was a source of political turmoil according to traditional view of Chinese history.

Chinese Grand Empresses Dowagers include:

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