{"id":8446,"date":"2016-05-10T04:02:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T04:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/05\/10\/prokopetz-okay-this-is-in-incredibly-petty\/"},"modified":"2016-05-10T04:02:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T04:02:43","slug":"prokopetz-okay-this-is-in-incredibly-petty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/05\/10\/prokopetz-okay-this-is-in-incredibly-petty\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

prokopetz<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Okay, this is in incredibly petty nitpick, but: if you\u2019re writing a fantasy setting with same-sex marriage, a same-sex noble or royal couple typically would not have titles of the same rank – e.g., a prince and a prince, or two queens.<\/p>\n

It depends on which system of ranking you use, of course (there are several), but in most systems there\u2019s actually a rule covering this scenario: in the event that a consort\u2019s courtesy title being of the same rank as their spouse\u2019s would potentially create confusion over who holds the title by right and who by courtesy, the consort instead receives the next-highest title on the ladder.<\/p>\n

So the husband of a prince would be a duke; the wife of a queen, a princess; and so forth.<\/p>\n

(You actually see this rule in practice in the United Kingdom, albeit not in the context of a same-sex marriage; the Queen\u2019s husband is styled a prince because if he were a king, folks might get confused about which of them was the reigning monarch.)<\/p>\n

The only common situation where you\u2019d expect to see, for example, two queens in the same marriage is if the reigning monarchs of two different realms married each other – and even then, you\u2019d more likely end up with a complicated arrangement where each queen is technically a princess of the other\u2019s realm in addition to being queen of her own.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve gotta keep it nice and unambiguous who\u2019s actually in charge!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

prokopetz: Okay, this is in incredibly petty nitpick, but: if you\u2019re writing a fantasy setting with same-sex marriage, a same-sex noble or royal couple typically would not have titles of the same rank – e.g., a prince and a prince, or two queens. It depends on which system of ranking you use, of course (there … Continue reading <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[768],"class_list":["post-8446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-yes-good","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}