The colors and pattern were influenced by the Austrian dragoons of the period, as the Brazilian Empress Consort was also an Austrian Archduchess.

Empress Consort: Princess Tōchi ( 十市皇女 ) ( 648 ?– 678 ), a daughter of Emperor Temmu

# Empress Consort Kōmyō, the consort of Emperor Shōmu.

( She wouldn't have precedence over the next Empress Consort, however, as only those Dowager Empresses who were mothers of Emperors had precedence over the wife of the reigning sovereign.

* May 16 – Elisabeth Alexeievna ( Louise of Baden ), Empress Consort of Russian Emperor Alexander I ( b. 1779 )

* October 13 – Dagmar of Denmark, later Maria Fyodorovna, wife of Tsar Alexander III and Empress Consort of Russia ( b. 1847 )

* June 8 – Maria Alexandrovna ( Marie of Hesse ), Empress Consort of Czar Alexander II of Russia ( b. 1824 )

* November 1 – Alexandra Feodorovna ( Charlotte of Prussia ), the Empress Consort of Russian Emperor Nicholas I ( b. 1798 )

** Empress Xiaohuizhang, second Consort of the Qing Dynasty Shunzhi Emperor of China ( b. 1641 )

The regent Liang Ji ( d. 159 CE ), brother of Empress Liang Na ( d. 150 CE ), had the brother-in-law of Consort Deng Mengnü ( later empress ) ( d. 165 CE ) killed after Deng Mengnü resisted Liang Ji's attempts to control her.

His father Augustus was a brother of Ferdinand II of Portugal, and also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband Albert, Prince Consort, Empress Carlota of Mexico and her brother Leopold II of Belgium.

* Princess Hashihito ( 間人皇女 ) (?– 665 ), Empress Consort of Emperor Kōtoku

Since 1721, the official titles of the Russian male and female monarchs were Emperor (, imperator ) and Empress (, imperatritsa ), respectively, or Empress Consort.

He was involved in palace intrigue as a supporter of Empress Dou, and in the death of her romantic rival, Consort Song.

After the death of Empress Dou in AD 97, he became an associate of Consort Deng Sui.

In 121, Consort Song's grandson Emperor An of Han assumed power after Empress Deng's death and Cai was ordered to report to prison.

The young prince was sworn heir to the throne in 1503, the year his youngest sister, Isabella of Portugal, Consort Empress of the Holy Roman Empire between 1527 and 1538, was born.

She was the last Grand Mistress of these orders to be an effective Empress Consort.

Wu Zetian ( ( c. 625 – 705 ), also known as Wu Zhao or Wu Chao and as Wu-hou or Wu Hou (), and during the Tang Dynasty as Tian Hou ( 天后 ), Dynasty ), and in English translation as Empress Consort Wu, or the deprecated term " Empress Wu " was a Chinese sovereign, who ruled officially under the name of her self-proclaimed " Zhou Dynasty ", from 690 to 705 ; however, she had previous imperial positions, under both Taizong and his son Gaozong, of the Tang Dynasty, in China.

In some cases, the queen consort has been the chief power behind her husband's throne ; e. g. Maria Luisa of Parma, wife of Carlos IV of Spain, and Alexandra Feodorovna ( Alix of Hesse ), wife and Empress Consort of Nicholas II of Russia.

* Empress Consort ( kōgō ): Fujiwara ( Unknown name )

Shirakawa had one Empress and one Imperial Consort and nine Imperial sons and daughters.

Daughter of Karl Ludwig of Baden and Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, she was the younger sister of Empress Elisabeth Alexeievna ( formerly Princess Louise of Baden ), wife of Tsar Alexander I of Russia.

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia from 1762 – 1796, was a member of the House of Ascania, herself the daughter of Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.

In September 1896, Victoria welcomed Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and Empress Alexandra to Balmoral.

Empress of Russia Catherine The Great

* 1693 – Empress Anna of Russia ( d. 1740 )

The royal election of 1764 resulted in the elevation of Stanisław August Poniatowski, a refined and worldly aristocrat connected to a major magnate faction, but hand-picked and imposed by Empress Catherine II of Russia, who expected Poniatowski to be her obedient follower.

* 1794 – Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.

In 1773, Empress Catherine of Russia ordered the Green Frog Service from Wedgwood ; it can still be seen in the Hermitage Museum.

* 1725 – The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I.

Maria Feodorovna ( 26 November 1847 – 13 October 1928 ), born Princess Dagmar of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, later styled Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was Empress consort of Russia as spouse of Emperor Alexander III.

Empress Maria Fyodorovna and her husband Alexander III of Russia | Emperor Alexander III vacationing in Copenhagen in 1893

They were also concerned that the young Princess was not possessed of the right character to be Empress of Russia.

She had lived for twenty-eight years in Russia, including thirteen as Empress, and thirty-four years of widowhood still awaited her, the last ten in exile in Denmark.

Despite the overthrow of the monarchy in 1917, the former Dowager Empress Maria at first refused to leave Russia.

The decision to settle Norfolk Island was taken under the impetus of the shock Britain had just received from the Empress Catherine of Russia.

The advantage of Britain's new colony in providing a non-Russian source of flax and hemp for naval supplies was referred to in an article in Lloyd ’ s Evening Post of 5 October 1787 which urged: “ It is undoubtedly the interest of Great-Britain to remain neutral in the present contest between the Russians and the Turks ” and observed, “ Should England cease to render her services to the Empress of Russia, in a war against the Turks, there can be little of nothing to fear from her ill-will.

* 1796 – Catherine II of Russia, Empress of Russia ( b. 1729 )

Other members of the Imperial Family present included the descendants of the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna including Prince Michael Andreevich of Russia the senior direct male descendant.

Equestrian portrait of Empress Elisabeth of Russia with a black servant

In 1732 Empress Anna of Russia, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and King Frederick William I of Prussia, irritated with Augustus but unwilling to allow Stanisław to become king, secretly signed Löwenwolde's Treaty, in which they agreed to jointly back the candidacy of Infante Manuel of Portugal for the Polish throne.

* Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia

* Elizabeth of Russia, Empress of Russia

July 30: In Russia, Empress Elizabeth at the porch of the newly built Catherine Palace, painting ( 1905 ) by Eugene Lanceray ( in Tretyakov Gallery ).

* November 5 – Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg, Empress of Paul I of Russia ( b. 1759 )