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There has long been public concern over the lack of male heirs in the imperial family - along with debate over whether women should be allowed to take the throne.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

An Asahi Shimbun poll in May also showed 72 percent of respondents in favour of changing the rules to allow women to ascend the throne.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

Another poll, conducted by Kyodo News, found that 83% of respondents were in favour of allowing a woman to take the throne.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

For the 25,000th, someone made a throne of beer crates and sat on it, pint in hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

She flicked the armrest of her throne and then fixed her dark gaze on Boo.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

It depicts a medieval game of thrones as William the Conqueror fought King Harold to rule England.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

The ceremony then culminated with Mullally being seated in two different thrones.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

The objects, which include richly embroidered vestments and lavishly sculpted monstrances, Eucharist thrones and sanctuary lamps made of jewel-studded precious metals, are eye-catchingly high Baroque.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025

Foo Fighters fired its new drummer Josh Freese this year, just two years into his tenure behind one of the most coveted thrones in rock following the death of Taylor Hawkins in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025

They were like great figures seated upon thrones.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

A hoarder of women, art, antiquities — and most of all, money — Getty also might have taken issue with Portia’s claim that mercy “becomes the throned monarch better than his crown.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2017

So Blatter is seeking to be throned for another four years as Fifa big cheese at the elections to be held in June.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2011

Behind the desk, in the chair, Franz Rosenzweig was throned.

From Time Magazine Archive

They have commanded knights and serfs, taken walled towns and sat throned among their armies.

From Time Magazine Archive

A kingdom where kings are throned and dethroned daily.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

How heartily she rained them on the Tuileries and the majesty of the imperial court, throning on high above an abject and trembling people.

From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile

These kings sought to crown that semi-barbarous occupation of North Italy during two centuries by throning themselves in Rome, and making the Pope their vassal.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.

Above their heads the trees met in a brown-and-purple tracery of boughs, and on their right, through the branches, they saw a pale full moon, throning it in a silver sky.

From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

On every side, where'er he came, He heard glad words, their theme the same, As in their joy the gathered folk Of Ráma and the throning spoke.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Thus toward that throning bosom Where all earth is warmed,—each spot Nourished with autumnal blessings - Icy chill was Daphne caught.

From Poems — Volume 1 by Meredith, George