Lê Thị Dinh with her sons. Photo courtesy of Nguyễn Như Trị (right) via Thanh Nien.
An important historical figure of the Nguyen Dynasty has left us this week.
On February 22, historian Nguyễn Đức Lộc confirmed with Phu Nu that Lê Thị Dinh, the last remaining imperial maid of the Nguyen Dynasty, had passed away on February 21 at 102 years old. Dinh was assigned to Empress Dowager Đoan Huy (Từ Cung), Bảo Đại’s mother, until her death in 1980.
Since then, she resettled in Kiên Thái Vương Temple in Hue along with her sons to take over altar maintenance for Emperors Đồng Khánh, Kiến Phúc, Hàm Nghi, Khải Định, and Bảo Đại.
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