Empress Wanrong

Gobulo Wanrong (Chinese郭 布罗 • 婉容/郭 布罗 • 婉容, Pinyin Guōbùluó Wǎnróng; born November 13, 1906 in Beijing, † June 20, 1946 in Yanji ) was the last Empress of the Qing Dynasty in China, and later Empress of Manchukuo.

Childhood and youth

Gobulo Wanrong was the daughter of Rongyuan, the interior ministers of the Qing government and head of one of the richest and best-known banner families who belonged to the " Pure White Banner " (正 白旗) and to the people of the Daur. Wanrong attended the American missionary school in Tianjin and had an American teacher, Isabel Ingram, who gave her the Christian name " Elizabeth ".

At the age of fourteen years Wanrong was selected from a series of photographs of potential wives that had been presented to Emperor Puyi. Puyi resided at the time as non- sovereign monarch in the Forbidden City. 1922 married to Puyi with Wanrong and Grounds Wenxiu, but Puyi showed neither of the special interest.

Empress of China and Manchukuo

The marriage of Wanrong and Puyi remained childless. Some historians doubt that ever has intercourse took place. Hiro Saga, wife of Puyis brother Pujie, described in her memoirs homosexual affairs of the emperor with young men.

Since her youth Wanrong took opium. According Puyis autobiography at the time was fashionable for educated young girls to smoke cigarettes, which were often mixed with a small amount of opium.

Rumored Wanrong 1940 became pregnant by one of her servants, and brought a child into the world, that they killed immediately after birth. From this point Wanrongs condition deteriorated considerably and she lived in a nearly continuous opium.

In June 1946, Wanrong died at the age of 39 years in prison from Yanji to the effects of malnutrition and opium withdrawal. Puyi found out about it until three years later.

In October 2006, had Wanrongs younger brother Gobulo Runqi ( 1912-2007 ) set up her in the necropolis of the Qing Dynasty 140 km southwest of Beijing, a grave.