mortal allowed to see./O, Nguyễn Hữu-Hào! Beautiful are all thy ways." Empress She was titled as the Empress Consort soon after her marriage to Emperor Bảo Đại in 1934. Bảo Đại bestowed upon her the title of Nam Phương Hoàng hậu which went against the convention established by Gia Long. From Gia Long until Khải Định all empresses consort were known as Hoàng phi and would only be known as a Hoàng hậu after their deaths. On 18 June 1945, Nam Phương was raised in rank from Her Majesty to Her Imperial Majesty. Bảo Đại continued to assume the title of emperor after proclaiming the country's independence from France on March 11, 1945, as he was urged to rule his empire as a member of Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. At this time, Tonkin, Annam, and Cochinchina, which came under the control of Imperial Japan after the coup d'état in French Indochina, were reunited to become the Empire of Vietnam. However, the emperor was later convinced to abdicate the throne by the revolutionary movement Việt Minh, at that time not widely known as being led by communists. He accepted Ho Chi Minh's invitation to become a supreme advisor to the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam later in 1945. Children The emperor and empress had five children, most of whom were educated at the French boarding school their mother had attended, . Crown Prince Bảo Long (4 January 1936 – 28 July 2007). Princess Phương Mai (1 August 1937 – 16 January 2021; married Don Pietro Badoglio, 2nd Duke of Addis Abeba and Marquis of Sabotino). Princess Phương Liên born on 2 November 1938 (married Bernard Maurice Soulain). Princess Phương Dung born on 5 February 1942. Prince Bảo Thắng (30 September 1944 – 15 March 2017). Influence on fashion Nam Phương's first official visit to Europe, in the summer of 1939, launched a craze for what one reporter described as "trousers and embroidered tunics for evenings; pagoda silhouettes, [and] revers or sleeve forms." To the surprise of fashion observers, when she met with Pope Pius XII during that trip, "the visitor from Indochina did not wear the traditional black, long-sleeved gown and veil. Instead, she appeared in a gold, dragon-embroidered tunic, red scarf, and gold hat. She wore silver trousers." Later life Nam Phương served as a member of the Reconstruction Committee for Vietnam after the