She was honoured as Queen Dowager Hyesun (Korean: 혜순왕대비) during the reign of her step-son Yi Yun, King Gyeongjong, and later as Grand Queen Dowager Hyesun (Korean: 혜순대왕대비) during the reign of her adoptive son, Yi Geum, King Yeongjo.
[2] In her early years of marriage, it was recorded that the young Queen had suffered from measles, toothaches, boils, and smallpox.
Which in 1711, she came down with smallpox prompting Choi Suk-bin to order the gungnyeo to go out of the palace and look for remedies among the commoners to save the Queen, who in the end survived.
Although her family was Soron, she changed her faction to Noron after Sukjong's death due to the political turmoil her adoptive son was dealing with within the palace.
A month later, the Queen Dowager later died on 13 May 1757 in the thirty-third year reign of King Yeongjo at Changdeok Palace, aged 69.
King Yeongjo’s son, Crown Prince Sado, from Royal Consort Yeong, had been said to have grieved immensely; causing his mental illness to worsen.