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What is the difference between a Royal Crown and an Imperial Crown?
I was doing some research on the difference between a Queen and an Empress (or a King and an Emperor) and the answer I got from Wikipedia came down to the type of Crown they held. I assume it doesn't mean the literal crown, but rather the territory they rule over, but the answer to the question led me to be even more confused! Can someone help me out?
Yes, that's what they meant - the type of territory they rule over. A king is head of one country, while an emperor rules over several countries - his empire.
In practice it's not as simple as that and titles are just traditional. The only emperor in the world today is the Emperor of Japan, presumably because Japan thought of itself as an empire at one stage but obviously it isn't now. It did in fact dominate other countries in the area for nearly a century until 1945, but even that isn't relevant as the line of Japanese Emperors goes back to before 600 BC. Nevertheless the title is traditional and won't be changed now.
On the other hand, consider the British Empire. The British monarchs for all that time could have reasonably taken the title of emperor or empress, but they didn't. The only exception was when Queen Victoria took the title of Empress of India in 1876, emphasising her superiority over the many other royal rulers that nominally ruled various parts of India.
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