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The Queen did not bear King Jeongjo any children, but she adopted the sons of two of her husband's concubines, Royal Noble Consort Ui and Royal Noble Consort Su, as her own. The son of Royal Noble Consort Ui died young, but the son of Royal Noble Consort Su would eventually succeed King Jeongjo on the throne as the twenty-third king of Joseon.
Jeongjo (Korean: 정조; Hanja: 正祖; 28 October 1752 – 18 August 1800), personal name Yi San (이산; 李祘), sometimes called Jeongjo the Great (정조대왕; 正祖大王), was the 22nd monarch of the Joseon dynasty of Korea. He was the second son of Crown Prince Sado and Lady Hyegyŏng, and succeeded his grandfather, King Yeongjo, in ...
Eventually, Jeongjo ascended the throne in 1776, following the death of his grandfather. For a long time, Jeongjo was willing to forgive Princess Hwawan, for she being the favorite daughter of the late king and his aunt. Yet, since the beginning of the reign, numerous officials asked the new king to execute the princess for her acts.
In the Joseon Dynasty records, it stated that she conceived a princess in 1781 but her pregnancy was an imaginary one. Royal Noble Consort Hwa died without issue, on September 14, 1824 (the 24th year of King Sunjo 's reign).
NASA on Tuesday will share the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope, developed by NASA alongside the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, is the largest ...
Queen Jeongsun (Korean: 정순왕후 김씨; 2 December 1745 – 11 February 1805 [a]), of the Gyeongju Kim clan, was a posthumous name bestowed to the wife and second queen consort of Yi Geum, King Yeongjo, the 21st Joseon monarch. [1]
A total solar eclipse will snake its way across Mexico, the U.S. and Canada, on April 8. In a total solar eclipse, the moon passes between the sun and Earth, completely blocking the sun.
Watch live as a Nasa spacecraft returns to Earth with the largest asteroid sample in history on Sunday 24 September. After a seven-year, four-billion-mile journey across space, the ambitious NASA ...