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The Norwegian collier SS Storstad showing damage sustained in collision with RMS Empress of Ireland on 29 May 1914. The Storstad struck the Empress amidships cutting a 16-foot gash in her hull...

The First Class entrance on the lower promenade deck of the RMS Empress of Ireland. The stairs lead up to the music room and down to the dining saloon for First Class passengers. The Empress of Ireland...

The Delhi Durbar was a spectacular public event held in India to commemorate the accession of a new British monarch to the title Empress or Emperor of India. Three Delhi Durbars were held: 1877, 1903, and 1911. The event involved...

King Stephen of England, often called Stephen of Blois, ruled from 1135 to 1154 CE. His predecessor Henry I of England (r. 1100-1135 CE) had left no male heir and his nominated successor, his daughter Empress Matilda, was...

15th Century CE miniature of Empress Matilda of England (1102 - 1167 CE), the wife of Henry V of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire. (r. 1111 - 1125 CE). From the "History of England" by St. Albans monks (15th century...

The Empress Mother Cixi (1835 - 1908) photographed in 1903 with the wives of the diplomatic corps having a tea in the Forbidden City, the Chinese imperial palace. After the death of her husband, the Chinese...

A view of the first-class dining saloon on RMS Empress of Ireland which sank after a collision in 1914. Photograph taken in 1906. (Royal Museums Greenwich Collection)

A 6th century CE mosaic depicting Empress Theodora and her court in the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna.

Statue of Empress Julia Domna (wife of Septimius Severus) as Ceres, from the Portico of the Fountain with oil-lamp, 3rd century CE, Ostia Antica.

Mosaic from the Hagia Sophia in modern-day Istanbul (previously Constantinople), Turkey, depicting Zoe, empress of the Byzantine Empire from 1028-1050 CE. She was the daughter of Constantine VIII (r. 1025-1028 CE).