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A portrait of the Empress Sabina, wife of Roman emperor Hadrian. The portrait was carved around 117-118 CE and comes from Ostia. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

A photograph showing the coffins of children being removed from the Lady Grey at Quebec, victims of the sinking of RMS Empress of Ireland in May 1914. (Bain Collection, Library of Congress)

The Wedding of Empress Zoe and Michael IV the Paphlagonian. History of John Skylitzes, Skyllitzes Matritensis, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid.

The Byzantine Emperor ruled as an absolute monarch in an institution which lasted from the 4th to 15th century CE. Aided by ministers, high-ranking nobility, and key church figures, the emperor (and sometimes empress) was commander-in-chief...

Marble head of Livia Drusilla, wife of emperor Augustus, from Fayum (Egypt), copy from the 4th century CE or later after an original from 27-23 BCE (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

Empress Wu Zetian (r. 683-704 CE) of the Tang Dynasty. Image taken from An 18th-century album of portraits of 86 emperors of China, with Chinese historical notes. Originally published/produced in China, 18th century. (British...

Depiction of Byzantine Empress Irene, the wife of Emperor John II (r. 1118-1143 CE) as found in the Hagia Sophia in modern-day Istanbul (previously Constantinople), Turkey.

Joséphine de Beauharnais (1763-1814), first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte and empress consort of the French, in her coronation robes. Joséphine and her husband were coronated on 2 December 1804. Oil on canvas by...

Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais (1763-1814), portrait by Antoine-Jean Gros, c. 1809. Malmaison Museum.

The throne of Empress Catherine II The Great (1729-1796). State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.