Royal Family

The Royal Family is the ruling house of PISO, headed by the Sovereign Prince and Princess. Royalty consists of all members of PISO possessing the style of His or Her Majesty (HM) or His or Her Royal Highness (HRH). By that criterion, members of the royal family aside from the sovereigns include their consorts, all former living sovereigns and their consorts, and reigning regents. Consorts of regents do not normally count as members of the royal family.

The royal family is allowed to exercise royal prerogative, but is not allowed to vote on any Cabinet decision, nor allowed any say in Accession Council procedures for electing the successors to the throne.

Status and Privileges
Members of the royal family rank higher than any other individual in PISO, even above all peers. They are the only ones empowered to exercise the royal prerogative on behalf of the sovereigns.

The royal prerogative consists of several powers, usually exercised only with the discretion of the cabinet and advice of the Prime Minister. However, constitutionally, the sovereigns can exercise these powers at will and can at any time request any royal to exercise them on their behalf for any reason.

The royal prerogative consists of:
 * The ability to summon the Privy Council. The Privy Council is never allowed to meet or make plans to meet without being summoned by the sovereigns or member of the royal family acting in their name.
 * The ability to create, suspend, and rescind peerages. Sovereigns may elevate commoners to vacant peerages, promote and demote peers between ranks, and rescind any peerage for any reason, though peerages are typically rescinded due to treasonous acts or inability to carry out duties expected of a peer. Sovereigns are also required to approve of relations with peers and members of the royal family; unapproved relations are considered morganatic.
 * The ability to validate a session of Cabinet. Cabinet may summon meetings of its own, usually on the request or order of the Prime Minister. However, a royal must be present at any cabinet meeting to give royal assent to open the meeting, since the cabinet is technically Their Majesties government. In practice, a member of the royal family is simply there to receive information and keep the royal family updated on cabinet initiatives.

List of Members
The list of royal family members, in the order of precedence, is as follows:
 * 1) HM The Sovereign Prince
 * 2) HM The Sovereign Princess (*the more senior monarch by class standing, then by age, takes precedence)
 * 3) HRH Prince Kendric, The Hereditary Prince
 * 4) HRH Princess Rebecca, The Hereditary Princess
 * 5) HRH Princess Tianwei of PISO
 * 6) HRH Princess Natalia of PISO