Star Wars: 10 Strange Laws ALL Empire Employees Follow
6. Treat The Emperor's Wife As His Property
The Empire doesn't make the same provisions for women that it does aliens, though, and good old-fashioned sexism appears to run right to the rotten core of the enterprise.
This is evidenced no better than in the 1993 Legends book "Queen of the Empire." During the wedding ceremony of Empire mutant warlord Trioculus and a Leia droid replica, Grand Moff Hissa reads from a book called the Dark Book of Imperial Justice.
The passage in question states that "By Imperial law, when the Emperor takes a wife, she becomes his property, obliged to obey his every word and bow down before him whenever he wishes a show of obedience."
Though the exact nature of Palpatine's marital status remains up in the air post-The Rise of Skywalker, it's simply accepted fact that any Emperor's potential spouse is dehumanised and considered a thing by both the Emperor and the Empire as a whole.
It probably shouldn't surprise anyone that this ruling hasn't been depicted in any of the Star Wars movies, particularly the recent ones. Just imagine the backlash.