Nguyen Phuc Ho, also known as Bao Dai Emperor, formerly known as Nguyen Phuc Vinh Thuy, was the 13th and last monarch of the Nguyen Dynasty, the last dynasty in Vietnamese history. His titles were King Annan (1926-1945), Vietnam Emperor (1945) and head of state of South Vietnam
(1949-1955, reign name Bao Dai). Emperor Bao Dai was born on October 22, 1913. On May 15, 1922, the 9-year-old Prince Nguyen Phuc Vinh Thuy was named the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace. He was then sent to France to receive education at the Condorcet School in Paris and Sciences Po in Paris.
On January 8, 1926, 12-year-old Nguyen Phuc Ho ascended the throne in the Forbidden City of Hue and became King Annan, with the reign name "Bao Dai". He then returned to France to continue his studies and appointed a Catholic, Nguyen Hu Bai, to head the court in Hue. At that time, the Annan government was dominated by the French colonial regime and was part of French Indochina. Therefore, Baoda has long been used as a symbol of the French colonial regime. In August 1945, Japan surrendered to the Allies. On August 23, Ho Chi Minh 's provisional revolutionary government sent a message to Hue, asking Bao Dai to abdicate. The Japanese ambassador Hengshan suggested that Bao Dai use Japanese military power to easily annihilate the Viet Minh. However, Bao Dai was unwilling to use external forces to massacre the Vietnamese and rejected Hengshan's suggestion. On August 25, he issued an edict announcing his abdication. On August 30, Bao Dai held an abdication ceremony in front of the Meridian Gate of the Hue Palace. On March 16, 1946, Bao Dai chose to leave Vietnam voluntarily and went to live in exile at his residence in Repulse Bay, Hong Kong. On July 30, 1997, Baoda died at the Valley of Grace Military Hospital in Paris, France, and was buried in Passy Cemetery. There is no temple name, posthumous name, or mausoleum name.
Baoda married a total of 5 concubines and gave birth to 8 sons and 13 daughters.
Emperor Baoda got married for the first time when he was less than 20 years old. On March 20, 1934, Bao Dai married Ruan Youlan (1914-1963), a beautiful woman from a wealthy Catholic civilian family in southern Vietnam and educated in France, in the Forbidden City of Hue, the capital. On March 24, Bao Dai made an exception and married her. On June 18, 1945, Nanfang was awarded the title of Queen. The couple had five children. Queen Nanfang was famous for her beauty and was once written as one of the "five most beautiful women in the world". Queen").
Emperor Bao Dai and Queen Namfang
Queen Namfang
Queen Namfang
Queen Nanfang
Bao Dai's second official wife was Monique Baudot, a French citizen, born in 1942 in Lorraine, France, in February 1972. She got married in Paris, France, and was given the title "Imperial Princess" and her emblem was Yongrui. She was known as Queen Taifang after her husband's death in 1997.
Bao Da also had three concubines, all of whom were married during Queen Nam Fong's lifetime:
Anh Concubine Hu, Bao Da's cousin (mother's niece), married Concubine Anh in Hue in 1935;
Huang Xiaolan, a concubine. A Chinese woman, married in Hong Kong in 1946; Pei Mengdie, born in Hanoi in 1924, married in Saigon in 1955.
Queen Taifang
Baoda and Yingfei Hushi
Pei Mengdie
Huang Xiaolan
