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* In Megan Whalen Turner's series ''[[The Queen's Thief]]'', the Queen of Eddis is called Eddis when as a woman she should have been called Eddia.

* In [[Tamora Pierce]]'s ''[[Tortall Universe|The Song of the Lioness]]'' series, the Lady Knight Alanna is referred to as "Sir Alanna." This is because she [[Sweet Polly Oliver|masqueraded as a boy]] for literally the entirety of her knight training because girls weren't allowed to become knights, and as a result was knighted as "Sir ''Alan''" and only revealed to be female afterwards. As a result she does not carry a shield with a distaff (feminine) border. Keladry of Mindelan, on the other hand, is "Lady Knight Keladry" because she trained openly as a female, and has a distaff shield.

* In ''[[Honor Harrington]]'', only men of the royal line can be Emperor of the Anderman Empire. At least once an emperor failed to produce any male heirs and it looked like there would by a dynastic civil war between his various nephews and cousins. Then his daughter proclaimed herself to be a man and took the throne, basically daring all her male cousins to object if they thought they could make it stick. They universally declined the offer and, by all accounts, she became one of the empire's longest ruling and most effective leaders since the original Gustav Anderman himself.

* In ''[[Temeraire]]'', the Tswana society resolves around ancestor worship, and they practice telling stories of deceased loved ones to dragon eggs, so that the dragons are born as reincarnations of great leaders. This has lead to their entire empire being led by a young female dragon who is the "reincarnation" of their last king.

=== Literature ===

* In the Branion series by Fiona Patton, the sovereign's title ("Aristok") is unisex, and all the others are male (Prince, Duke, Knight, etc) but can equally well pertain to females. A consort, whether male or female, is just that, a consort.

* In [[Patricia C. Wrede]]'s ''Dragonsbane'' (also titled ''Dealing with Dragons''), the first volume of the [[Enchanted Forest Chronicles]], it is explained that the title of King of the Dragons is gender neutral, Kazul is a female dragon and contestant for the title of King. In what is arguably an [[Inverted Trope|inversion]], Queen, a boring secretarial position unrelated to being the ruler or ruler's consort, is also a gender-neutral title, and the most recent holder of the now-vacant post was male.

* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', a certain key prophecy refers to the [[Chosen One|Prince That Is Promised]], but all the signs are pointing very clearly at a ''female'' character. The fandom [[Wild Mass Guessing|guessed]] that the term "Prince" was gender-neutral in Old Valyrian, the language the prophecy was written in. This was proven exactly correct in ''A Feast For Crows''.

 

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