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. As the affianced bride of Prince Chun
had drowned herself in a well during the Boxer troubles, the
Empress Dowager engaged him to the daughter of the lady who had
been Jung Lu's first concubine, but who, as his consort was dead,
was raised to the position of wife.
"This Lady Jung," says Mrs. Headland, "is some forty years of
age, very pretty, talkative, and vivacious, and she told me with
a good deal of pride, on one occasion, of the engagement of her
son to the sixth daughter of Prince Ching. And then with equal
enthusiasm she told me how her daughter had been married to
Prince Chun, 'which of course relates me with the two most
powerful families of the empire.'
"I have met the Princess Chun on several occasions at the
audiences in the palace, at luncheons with Mrs. Conger, at a
feast with the Imperial Princess, at a tea with the Princess Tsai
Chen, and at the palaces of many of the princesses. She is a very
quiet little woman, and looked almost infantile as she gazed at
one with her big, black eyes. She is very circumspect in her
movements, and with such a mother and father as she had, I should
think may be very brilliant. Naturally she had to be specially
dignified and sedate at these public functions, as she and the
Imperial Princess were the only ones belonging to the old
imperial household, the descendants of Tao Kuang, who were
intimately associated with the Empress Dowager's court
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