the emperor's new clothes

Examples from literature

Emperor Qin was worried about the kingdoms to the north of China, especially Mongolia. 
Emperor Shah Jahan loved his wife very much. 
He became emperor in 27 BCE. 
In 1922, the government changed and there were no more emperors. 
It is difficult to be sure about things that happened so long ago, but there are many stories of crazy things that emperors did. 
Later, between 1368 and 1644, the Ming emperors made the wall longer. 
Now the soldiers themselves live the life of emperors. 
People in every part of the Roman Empire knew what the emperor looked like. 
Qin was emperor for only 12 years. 
Some say the doctors made a mistake, but some believe they wanted to kill the emperor. 
The Romans put a picture of the emperor on their coins. 
The emperor wanted to live for many thousands of years. 
The emperor was so sad that he wanted to build a beautiful temple for her. 
The first Roman emperor was a man called Octavius Augustus. 
The leader was called an emperor or an empress. 
There were about 130 emperors in the history of the empire. 
An emperor does not like to be reminded of a very humble past, and he is liable also to fear the rivalry of men who formerly were his equals. 
But it is very early yet, and an hour may elapse before the emperor makes his appearance. 
For Napoleon was no longer emperor, and I would not serve the king who succeeded him. 
He was a great man, but not pre-eminently a great emperor. 
Whether he was a pretender or imagined that he was an emperor no one knew or seemed to care. 

emperor | American Dictionary

emperor
noun[ C ]
us/ˈem·pər·ər/
a male ruler of an empire

Examples of emperor

emperor
More often than not, damage-control treatment was applied to documents that contained the material detrimental to the legitimacy of the emperor or the regime.
Nowhere, however, did he actually comment upon their legality or illegality, let alone pronouncing a verdict on the very faith of the emperor.
The emperor entertained them and raised the issue of the marble.
Behind the smoke and mirrors of the state's periodic mobilisations of schools, bureaucrats and unions the affective power of the ' official ' last emperor proved ambiguous.
This also can be seen as a simplification of the procedures for memorializing the emperor and imperial sanction.
The intrinsic strength of the language, combined with the emperor's decision, prepared the ground for forging the links between the court and the remote village.
He discovered he could extend his own influence by fanning the ecclesiastics' fears that the emperor was no longer the best guarantor of their autonomy.
He describes a contentious and secretive process of the bottom+up (or middle+up) drafting of orders that eventually reach the emperor for approval.
The emperor also sponsored large-scale scholarly projects to map the region, classify its peoples and write its definitive history.
Instead, they were differentiated as "law" by the emperor, and as "contracts/agreements" by commoners.
They went to war cheerfully, suppressing thoughts of family and home, and sought to achieve glory for the emperor or the nation on the battlefield.
We counted more than 11,000 emperor penguins there during ship and aerial surveys.
Like the emperor and his nobility in general, this class also cherished the universal human values and visions.
In the past it was followed by the emperor and the nobility, by the rich and by intellectuals such as the literati.
This was a source of strife since the emperor was continually struggling to regain lost authority.
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