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Show IMPERIAL CONCUBINE Woman, Once Slave Became Be-came a Power in a Royal Palace Seoul, Korea, July 21. Lady Om, consort of Emperor Yi Houi, abdicated abdicat-ed in 1907, died yesterday. Lady Om was a palace politician of great skill. She was attendant upon the queen of Korea who was murdered. murder-ed. She gained the favor of the emperor em-peror and finally was compelled to flee from the palace. After the death of the queen she was restored to the court with the rank of an Imperial concubine. This conferred imperial rank upon her two children, She- was originally a slave who became a power in the courL |