21:25 / 10.12.2025

The American married and unexpectedly became a relative of the last Chinese emperor

One of the users on Reddit shared an extremely unusual story. According to him, he "stepped into" a family that would be related to the last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi, completely unexpectedly for himself. The incident became known after the man decided to marry a Chinese student he met at a medical university in America.

As the young man noted, a few days before the wedding, he learned that the bride's maternal grandmother was the birth sister of the last emperor Pu Yi.

"Before the engagement, I didn't know anything about her family history. We've known him since the 2000s, he practically spoke without an accent. At first, when I asked about his family, he said that his mother was a professor, and his father was the president of a large Shanghai corporation. He never spoke openly about his grandfather, grandmother, and exact lineage," says the young man.

However, belonging to the royal line did not bring her any material benefits or privileges. On the contrary, in the 1970s, it became known that his father was raised in very difficult conditions, in poverty.

The bride's family possesses only a few historical items: hereditary documents, a smuggled jade amulet, a rehabilitation paper issued by the PRC government in the 1970s, family calligraphy brushes, and a handwritten palace-style cookbook. According to the young man, the girl grew up in a family environment where it was forbidden to show off her lineage.

Currently, the spouses are over 40 years old and live in New York City with three children. The American groom still describes this accidental relationship as "one of the most unexpected turns life has shown me."