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The empress of Japan [c] is the title given to the wife of the Emperor of Japan or a female ruler in her own right. The current empress consort is Empress Masako , who ascended the throne with her husband on 1 May 2019.
F. Fujiwara no Anshi; Fujiwara no Ariko; Fujiwara no Genshi; Fujiwara no Hiroko; Fujiwara no Ikushi; Fujiwara no Ishi; Fujiwara no Junshi; Fujiwara no Kanshi
Seevali was the second known female monarch within Sri Lankan history and succeeded her brother Chulabhaya.She ruled the country only for about 4 months in the year 35 CE and was overthrown and succeeded by her nephew Ilanaga, presumably the son of her brother Chulabhaya, after an interregnum of 3 years. [3]
Despite being a consort, Pramila Devi was childless and refused to adopt the king's only son from a Yakadadoli (royal concubine), leaving the question of succession to the throne in doubt. In the end, she appointed her brother as the Apa (ඈපා, Great Duke), a powerful position, to be the next king of the kingdom, thereby establishing a new ...
A queen consort is the wife of a reigning king, and usually shares her spouse's social rank and status. She holds the feminine equivalent of the king's monarchical titles and may be crowned and anointed, but historically she does not formally share the king's political and military powers, unless on occasion acting as regent .
Josei Tennō (女性天皇) is a Japanese term referring to an empress regnant. [a] [3] Unlike the title Kōgō, which refers only to an empress consort, Josei Tennō only refers to a reigning empress. Tennō is the title for the Emperor; the addition of the term josei (女性, woman) distinguishes that the emperor is a woman; therefore, a ...
Fujiwara no Teishi (藤原 定子, 977 – January 13, 1001), also known as Sadako, [1] was an empress consort of the Japanese Emperor Ichijō. She appears in the literary classic The Pillow Book written by her court lady Sei Shōnagon.
She was Empress of Japan as the wife of Akihito, the 125th Emperor of Japan reigning from 7 January 1989 to 30 April 2019. Michiko married Crown Prince Akihito and became Crown Princess of Japan in 1959. She was the first commoner [1] to marry into the Japanese imperial family.