In 5 BCE, Empress Dowager Fu would finally get what she wanted. Emperor Ai removed the qualification "of Dingtao" from his father's posthumous title (thus making him simply "Emperor Gong"), and then gave his grandmother a variation of the grand empress dowager title ("ditaitaihou" (帝太太后), compared to Grand Empress Dowager Wang's title "taihuangtaihou" (太皇太后)) and his mother a variation of the empress dowager title ("ditaihou" (帝太后), compared to Empress Dowager Zhao's title "huangtaihou" (皇太后)), and there were therefore now four official empresses dowager in the capital, each with a full budget. That year, the new Empress Dowager Ding died.