Cixi

The Dowager Empress of China from 1861 until her death in 1908. Known as The Current Divine Mother Empress Dowager Ci-Xi Duan-You Kang-Yi Zhao-Yu Zhuang-Cheng Shou-Gong Qin-Xian Chong-Xi of the Great Qing Empire she took power after the death of her late husband Emperor Xianfeng in 1861, after of which she would rule for 47 years.