Crown Princess Gonghoe

[5][6]: 37 She had three siblings, whose marriage were all of connections with the royal family: her elder sister married Gu Sa-yeol (구사열; 具思說), a descendant of King Sejong the Great (great-grandson of Princess Gilan, a granddaughter of Sejong); her elder brother, Yun Baek-sun (윤백순; 尹百順), married a 3rd great-granddaughter of Grand Prince Hyoryeong, named Yi Cheon-yi (이천이; 李賤伊).

[18] In 1559, King Myeongjong ordered the selection of a suitable bride for his only son, the Crown Prince Yi Bu, from the girls aged 7 to 11 in Yangban families.

[19] The king's uncle, Yun Won-hyeong, was a younger brother of Queen Munjeong, and he attempted to retain his control to the politics through the royal marriage; he claimed that one of his relatives, from the Changwon Hwang clan, would be the best candidate to be the crown princess.

[20][21] Yun Won-hyeong hid the fact that Lady Hwang had chronic disease, making her successfully chosen in 1560, and the 5 of 6 etiquettes for the royal wedding was done as of early 1561.

[22][23][24] However, Lady Hwang seriously suffered from abdominal pain for months, and Myeongjong thought that an ill girl should not be crown princess, so the marriage was cancelled in the same year, and the court started another round of re-election.

[26][27] The wedding later took place in the same year, on the 21st day, 10th month, in the Myeongjeongjeon Hall of Changgyeonggung; from then on, Lady Yun was styled Crown Princess Deok (덕빈; 德嬪).

[2][5][32] As Princess Deok became a widow around the age of 10, and she never had any children, her mother-in-law Queen Insun ordered that she could still live in the court for the rest of her life.

[36] It was rumoured that Queen Munjeong and her brother Yun Won-hyeong insisted to move the tomb of King Jungjong out of the Seosamneung, but the new place was unfavorable, causing a series of misfortune in the following years.

[33][46] Around the 1560s, Princess Deok's father, Yun Ok, in the name of the royal wedding, embezzled in the grain trade from Honam and Yeongnam regions; he exchanged the crops from the government for a considerable amount of cotton cloth, as the bride price he could receive.

[5][51] A month later, the late Crown Princess received a posthumous name Gonghoe (공회; 恭懷), becoming the final title she would be known in history.

[29][46][53] At the time of the King's return in 1593, the Crown Princess' coffin was missing; he considered a ritual to summon her soul for the funeral, which was opposed by the officials as inappropriate.