The government efforts to make sure that male royals are producing male emperors have triggered criticisms.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
24 Oct. 2026
The play follows a press secretary to the Roman emperors, played by Annaleigh Ashford in the New York production opposite Joe Tapper as a journalist, with Christopher Ryan Grant as a nameless imperial official.
The changes include allowing the adoption of distant male relatives raised as commoners to become royals and father future heirs, and letting princesses keep their royal status after marrying commoners.
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Mari Yamaguchi,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Oct. 2026
Previously, princesses who marry a commoner had to renounce their royal status and leave the royal family.
In early English law, the silva forestis was a place for lords to chase game and for ordinary people to gather wood.
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James Whorton Jr,
Longreads,
13 Oct. 2026
Colombian police have arrested the wife and daughter of one of Ecuador's most powerful drug lords who was extradited to the United States last year, President Abelardo de la Espriella said Sunday.
Years later, in 2018, Zapcic rode into the spotlight on a dapple-gray Andalusian, making Medieval Times history as one of the first-ever queens to ride in procession.
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Alessandra Schade,
Vanity Fair,
28 Oct. 2026
This earlier Russell work did not include acid queens, pinball wizards, or teenage-wasteland messiahs.
To varying degrees, respondents in these countries—Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Saudia Arabia, and Turkey—expressed an increasing preference for liberal values, even as their rulers sought to suppress popular demands for democratic change.
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