In 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young emperor lived for thriteen years in Peking's Forbidden City, but with none of the power his birth afforded him.
The remainder of Pu Yi's life involved fleeing from a Chinese warlord, becoming head of a Japanese puppet-state, being confined to a Russian prison in Siberia, and enduring taxing labour.
