


In fact, some of them didn't even care as long as she was able to prove herself the best choice for ruler. She was pretending to be a male King Arthur, but according to the narrator, most people in her inner circle (besides Merlin and "Arthur"'s official wife, Guinevere, who both already knew) either realized or at least suspected that she is a girl, they just chose to ignore it. In Fate/stay night, Saber is King Arturia "Arthur" Pendragon.In a translated work, the original title is gender-neutral but it is represented by a masculine term in translation because of gender assumptions on the part of the translator.Women are not usually allowed to rule, so this one uses the masculine title to be clear about her authority.The woman simply prefers the masculine title to the feminine one and insists on using it.The Queen is masculine, and the title of "King" denotes masculinity rather than being male.The nation crowning the woman king wants to make it clear that she rules in her own right rather than as consort.The title is masculine, regardless of who has it.This is usually done as a way to get out of a Succession Crisis. The laws that say a queen can't rule fail to specify that a king must be male.

The woman rules under the outright legal fiction that she is a man.This can be for any number of reasons, such as:

