China's Last Royal

I have been in Australia for almost a year now. One thing that I didn’t expect before arriving is how interested Australians are in royalty. The popularity of Prince Harry and his family in Australia brought back to me an encounter I had with Runqi Gobulo, the last living member of China’s own Imperial Family and how different our history with royals is.

In the 1920s, Prince Runqi was as famous in the press as Prince Harry is today. The black-and-white photos of him in crisply ironed Western linen suit with his head turning wife, Princess Yunying were newspaper favorites back in the day.

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