The four dowager consorts – the widows of the Tongzhi and Guangxu Emperors – and Prince Chun (Puyi's father) showed Puyi a selection of photographs of young women for him to choose; he selected Wenxiu, but she was revealed to be actually a 12-year-old girl. They suggested that Puyi choose Wanrong, who was about the same age as him and had a similar family background as him. Since he had already chosen Wenxiu, they decided that he marry both Wanrong and Wenxiu as his primary and secondary spouses to fulfil a Manchu tradition. After Wanrong was selected, a group of palace eunuchs were sent to her home to prepare her for an imperial wedding Runqi, Wanrong's brother said that: "They taught her how to bow and behave with the emperor. She rebelled. She was fed up with the lessons, unhappy about marrying someone she had never met before." In the end, however, she went along with the marriage.