Eddis, Attolia, Sounis

I believe that it has to with the fact that a woman's hair style was very important back then. I also believe that someone has beaten me to saying this, but I shall continue to ramble. For example, I know that maidens in China had the prerogative to wear their hair partially down, and unwed servants have their hair in a single plait, but once married, they had to bun it up, as a sign of modesty. Thus, from then on, only their husbands were allowed to see their unbound hair. In other civilisations, like in Ancient Greece, I think that the same things applies, minus the part about the servants, because the society then, and even now, was rather patriarchal in nature. So Gen is invoking this; the fact that Irene is actually his wife, not just queen, but most are quite a bit dull I think, and the meaning is lost on them. Elia and Phresine are more insightful though.