yeah no ....
A prince begat princes and princesses
( the brits didnt - daughters were called The Lady ..... up to the daughters of George III a noted hun )
and all the kids got to be Princes or princesses .....
But you also had princes or the blood ( ie related to the Tsar )
Funny Rick - I was reading around War and Peace at the very moment you were - Nicholas II and Alexander III give good references - altho the scripts are rewritten to show how HOLY the Imperial fambly was ....
they werent that holy hur hur hur - and the royal princes seemed cheerful at the time of screwing anything that moved unless they were gay
This perceived immorality led George V to drag his feet over giving sanctuary to the IMperial fambly in 1917
as it was felt generally that they had brought it all on themselves
he also issued letters patent for our own Dear Royal Family
so that the Prince of Wales begets princes but there was a bit of a twitch over the princes grandchildren
and Anne's children deffo arent as she was only a princess
Princess Eddy's child is a viscount
and Randy Andy persuaded hismother to give princess title to the two gurlz by special grant as they werent entitled to it