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She credits much of her fearlessness as a performer to her time spent on the Hulu series “The Great,” on which she played a fictionalized version of Russian empress Catherine the Great.

The state visit to the UK by the emperor and empress of Japan will go ahead later this month, says Buckingham Palace.

A few years later, the tutor to the empress’s rival Shoshi, Shikibu wrote the world’s first known novel, “The Tale of Genji,” about a talented and handsome nobleman hampered by his family’s unfortunate political position.

He’s also due to host a state visit by the emperor and empress of Japan in June.

When the future empress of Japan entered the country’s elite diplomatic corps in 1987, a year after a major equal employment law went into effect, she was one of only three female recruits.