"[4] Famous in his era, travel-adventure writer Richard Halliburton wrote his parents in December 1922 that he called on "the young American tutoress of the Empress of China."

He wrote that on Christmas Eve he "went for a walk about the city wall with Miss Ingram" and that "the Royal Pair were only married a day or two before," adding that "this girl" and Reginald Johnston, Pu Yi's tutor, were the only people of European stock "at the great ceremony.

"[5] In his book The Royal Road to Romance,[6] he wrote that the empress was not to be outdone by the emperor with his tutor and that Ingram taught her the speech, modes, and manners of the West.

A 21 November 1934 New York Times article stated that the empress received part of her education from two American women.

At the time of her father's death in 1934, she lived in Edgewood, Maryland with her husband William Mayer, a captain in the United States Army.