I agree. It humanizes the character way too much. He should be monstrous and untouchable, not canoodling behind the reactor with some floozy.
His child would have been conceived after he became emperor, so I can only imagine that women are brought to him and made to caress his bloated monster face etc. Then they both have a smoke before his guards pay the woman and kindly escort her out, after which they ask Palps if he wants to keep her number on file.
I miss ten seconds ago when I hadn’t read this.