The government is considering limiting the royal status of princesses to one generation if they are to be allowed to create their own Imperial Family branches after marriage to commoners, government sources have revealed.
The move is aimed at appeasing those who are wary of princesses establishing new Imperial Family branches, which they fear would lead to allowing female members of the Imperial Family as well as those born between female Imperial Family members and non-Imperial men to accede to the Chrysanthemum Throne. Under the planned initiative, children born between princesses and commoners would not be given royal status.
(Mainichi)
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