Draft:Princess Huaike of the Second Rank

Princess Huaike was born on 15 August 1695 to Yinzhen, Prince Yong of the First Rank, who later became the Yongzheng Emperor, and his secondary consort, Lady Li, who was later elevated to Consort Qi. As a daughter of a Qing prince, Huaike was raised in the imperial household during the reign of her grandfather, the Kangxi Emperor.

In 1712, the Kangxi Emperor granted her the title of Heshuo Gege (和硕格格), a noble designation reserved for daughters of a first-rank prince.{{Cite journal |last=Guy |first=R. Kent |date=2001 |title=Review of A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3558578 |journal=Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies |volume=61 |issue=2 |pages=466–474 |doi=10.2307/3558578 |jstor=3558578 |issn=0073-0548}}

In September or October 1712, the Kangxi Emperor arranged for Princess Huaike to marry Xingde (星德; d. 1739), a Mongolian nobleman from the Manchu Nara clan. This marriage was part of the Qing dynasty's strategy to strengthen alliances with Mongolian elites through marital ties. The union, however, did not produce any children.{{Cite book |last=Kangxi |first=Emperor of China |url=https://archive.org/details/emperorofchinase0000kang_k8r4 |title=Emperor of China : self-portrait of K'ang-hsi |date=1974 |publisher=London : Cape |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-224-00940-9}}

Princess Huaike died of illness in April or May 1717 at the age of 23. The cause of her death is not well-documented in historical records. Following her death, In 1723, she was posthumously granted the title of Princess Huaike of the Second Rank (和碩懷恪公主).

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