The Death of an Empress
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Either a Mandarin Munchausen or a unique witness to history, Sir Edmund Backhouse, in his memoirs, claimed to have not only been the lover of the Dowager Empress but to have had unique access to the details of her murder and that of the Emperor Guangxu. Here is an excerpt from the long-forgotten au…
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