(1) Ava had moved to London to star opposite James Mason as the Empress of Austria in the film Mayerling .
(2) He is a regular panellist on comedy news quizzes, and reaches for Wodehouse in depicting 70s foreign secretary Lord Home "playing Lord Emsworth to Heath's Empress of Blandings".
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Kuan Yew, right, and his wife, Kwa Geok Choo, second left, posing with the Japanese Emperor Hirohito and his wife Empress Nagako, in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in 1968.
(4) The structure will dwarf nearby buildings, including the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery, an officially recognised cultural asset built in 1926 to honour the emperor and empress dowager Shoken.
(5) He was a talented musician and spent happy days as first violinist in the orchestra on the ocean liner the Empress of Britain, believing that the sea air helped him recover from the effects of the gas, though he always suffered bouts of bronchitis.
(6) She also played the Empress Alexandra in Gleb Panfilov’s Russian film The Romanovs: A Crowned Family (2000), about the last year and a half of the lives of Tsar Nicholas II and his family until their execution in July 1918.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Empress Michiko (pictured with Emperor Akihoto and Kumamoto’s governor) asked whether Kumamon was single, in 2013.
(8) The mean forces of fracture were 964 N for In-Ceram crowns, 814 N for paint-on IPS Empress crowns, and 750 N for layered IPS Empress crowns, compared with 1,494 N for metal ceramic crowns veneered on a nickel-chromium coping.
(9) The Guardian has spoken to the former empress about the museum and its remarkable collection on the occasion of an exhibition showing some of the art pieces for the first time .
(10) The Daily Stormer, a white supremacist site, attacked Ioffe in a blogpost titled: “Empress Melania Attacked by Filthy Russian Kike Julia Ioffe in GQ!” Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) .
(11) Plater's agent for many years was the terrifying Peggy Ramsay, whom he memorialised in his Hampstead theatre play, Peggy for You (1999), with Maureen Lipman giving one of her greatest performances, ruling the roost in her St Martin's Lane eyrie with the eccentric hauteur of a mad Russian empress.
(12) Recently introduced with pleasing aesthetic qualities, IPS-Empress (Ivoclar, Schaan, Liechtenstein), a new European leucite-reinforced glass-ceramic, has finally drawn attention in some journals and has been reviewed with promising in vitro test results.
(13) A friend of Heywood tells the Guardian the businessman had accused Gu of being "mentally unstable" and behaving like an unforgiving "empress".
(14) Tang dynasty records show that two of the bear-like beasts were presented to the Japanese court during the reign of the empress Wu Zetian (624 to 705).
(15) Shinzo Abe bows to Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko during a national memorial service for the victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
(16) He’s not sexy, but when the Empress Michiko met Kumamon – at her request – during the imperial couple’s visit to Kumamoto in 2013, she asked him: “Are you single?” A birthday cake was rolled out, and the crowd sang Happy Birthday.
(17) It's harrowing to hear accounts of the 1996 Sea Empress disaster in your native Pembrokeshire, even though the clean-up effort was effective and quick (thanks to volunteers), and the weather and the tide washed the oil out of the bay relatively quickly.
(18) " Over the next 40 minutes, her phone rings many times: more than once, it's the Swedish pop empress Robyn with whom she is shooting a video in the morning (Cherry answers the calls in Swedish).
(19) Did some ancestor of Dave's visit St Petersburg and conduct a bit of nocturnal diplomacy with the empress?
(20) Bringing back Corvo, hero of the original, you can also now play as his daughter Emily, who is the ruling empress but conveniently also a dangerously potent assassin.