Dục Đức
…feared Dục Đức would strip them of the power they enjoyed under the weak Tự Đức. With Dục Đức in captivity, the regents named his 34-year-old uncle Hiệp Hòa, Tự Đức's half-brother, as emperor. They may have skipped over Dục Đức's adoptive brothers to mitigate the backlash from the court women who had favored…