Empress Wang Shen'ai
China

Empress Wang Shen’ai – The twice-crowned Empress of the Eastern Jin Dynasty whose husband was mute and intellectually disabled

Empress Wang Shen’ai was the empress consort of Emperor An of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Due to turbulent events in her lifetime, Empress Wang Shen’ai was invested as empress twice.[1] Her reign as empress was often unhappy.[2] Her husband, Emperor An, was intellectually disabled and could not speak.[3] She was also a hostage of three powerful [read more]