But after she joined the imperial family , she began to suffer from a stress-related illness.
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Indeed, no males have been born into the imperial family for more than 30 years.
The government says it cannot ignore what it calls the book's false characterisation of the imperial family.
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Not only is it illegal for the imperial family, it would be unlikely to get public support.
The imperial family, constitutionally bound now to keep out of politics, can influence the debate only indirectly.
Several married members of the imperial family are childless, including Emperor Akihito's brother, his uncle and a cousin.
In reality, these were the imperial family quarters, and every detail of Harem life was governed by tradition, obligation and ceremony.
Sokolov was a member of the White Guard forces which captured Yekaterinburg from the Bolsheviks shortly after the imperial family was assassinated.
"I'm pretty sure that the couple is taking some measures, " says Watanabe Midori, the author of several books about the imperial family.
The bar at Kanga-an, tucked away in a quiet residential neighborhood, sits inside a small early 17th-century temple once patronized by the Imperial family.
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The imperial family were catered for by vast armies of servants - cooks, concubines, eunuchs, officials and soldiers - who pampered them while also scheming to improve their own positions.
Yet none of those baubles prepared the imperial family for 1908, when the Dowager Empress received a rock crystal egg containing an enameled peacock nesting in a golden branch.
Was it really necessary to have four pages on tensions over the imperial family's succession if they came at the expense of examining the country's archaic schools or its deeply flawed system of public justice?
Other boycotters include the main claimants to the Russian throne, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna and her 17-year-old son, Georgy, who will spend the day at the patriarch's much grander remembrance service for the imperial family near Moscow.
The plan's author, Hidenori Sakanaka, a former Tokyo immigration chief and now head of the Japan Immigration Policy Institute, envisages a multicultural Japan in which, he says, reverence for the imperial family is an option rather than a defining trait of Japaneseness.
Marcus Aurelius' foolish son Commodus squandered the imperial treasury, and expenses skyrocketed as later emperors launched expensive wars of choice against family enemies, greatly enlarged their imperial armies and raised military salaries.
Energy billionaire Victor Vekselberg bought the largest-ever private collection of Faberg?? imperial Easter Eggs from the Forbes family, the publishers of this Web site, in 2004.
For many wage earners, the cost of maintaining their mini-imperial courts can put a severe strain on family finances.
Ms. Hamilton, a sculptor and jewelry maker based in Toronto, was especially drawn to the eight or so Imperial eggs that have gone missing over the years (partly as a result of the royal family's post-Revolution exile to Siberia).
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Petersburg, Russia into a family of jewelers, and was eventually singled out by Alexander III, Tsar of Russia, becoming the Imperial Court Jeweler.
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