Greg Jenner
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You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
OK.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
OK, yeah.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Miss Manchu, yeah.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
It's another reality TV show, I think.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Dabwager Date Decider, I think we could call it.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
So things get a little bit tense, don't they?
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
And by 1874, the emperor, he gets ill.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
And I think we know where this story goes because we've heard it already before.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
What happens to him this time?
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
He died.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
What was his illness?
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Because there was an official illness and there was a real illness.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Ah, OK.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
And so Sir She, she has lost a sort of a husband of sorts.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
She's now lost her son.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
There are now no more men to control, Sophie.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
So how is she going to cling to power?
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Well...
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Yeah.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
So it's a good job.