Greg Jenner
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So she managed to cling to power for seven more years after this huge uprising, this huge rebellion.
But obviously she was compromised by the foreign powers coming in.
So that final stage of her career is perhaps not very successful.
But Sophie, do you know what her final act was?
Literally within days before her death, what was the last thing she did?
She's at the end of her life.
I mean, that's certainly part of it, isn't it?
Yeah, she did, yeah.
But she knew how to moderate it.
She dabbled in it, didn't she?
No, she... Well, do you remember the emperor who's still in house arrest?
She got rid of him.
One day before she died.
16 hours before she died.
Oh, my God.
She made sure he wasn't going to come back to power.
Yeah, she just lined up all the dominoes.
Her adopted son.
I don't know.
Poisoned?