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Brilliant-Acadia-339 t1_iztux69 wrote

In east Asia, when the ruler is an empress regnant would she have concubines?

Edit: Also would the harem even be a thing if there was an empress regnant on the throne?

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Even_Egg2037 t1_izuga98 wrote

Wu Zetian did, no?

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Brilliant-Acadia-339 t1_izvv0iv wrote

I mean she did have male lovers but in her case there weren’t that many compared to the usual female harems and they weren’t considered proper concubines (like concubine ranks and stuff)

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