When she was a child, she saw too many fairy tale love stories, and Cinderella suffered a lot in the first half of her life, but when she met the prince, it was the moment when she found happiness. But when I grew up, I found that fairy tales are all lies, and the happy ending of Cinderella and the prince is just a beautiful dream of adults. However, the love story of the prince and Cinderella falling in love is really staged in the Japanese imperial family, and they live happily together, which can be called a realistic version of Cinderella's story.
The Japanese real-life version of Cinderella is
Michiko Shoda
She was the empress of Akihito, the 125th Emperor of Japan. Michiko was born in Tokyo on October 20, 1934, although she is said to be a commoner Cinderella, but Michiko has a very good family, is a family of thousands of gold, and is considered a rich second generation. His father was the famous industrialist Hidezaburo Shoda, the owner of the Nissin Milling Company, and was considered an elite family at the time. Michiko attended Sacred Heart Girls' School during middle school, a school that was popular in Christianity, where girls who studied were carefully groomed as showgirls. Michiko is not only beautiful, her academic performance is among the best, her beauty and talent attract an endless stream of suitors, originally Michiko will be like the average Japanese woman to find a door to marry out, but no one thought that a fate encounter will completely change Michiko's fate, and finally pushed her to the position of the first heroine of the Japanese imperial family.
Japan's first commoner empress", Michiko
Love always comes by surprise. Just like Cinderella's romantic encounter with the prince. Akihito was a prince at the time, and his encounter with Michiko was at a tennis match. The two of them can be said to have met unexpectedly, and on that day Akihito not only lost to Michiko, but was also completely conquered by her. Perhaps it was Akihito who was spoiled from childhood to experience the taste of defeat for the first time, or perhaps she was impressed by the superb skills of her opponent in front of her, and Michiko has been deeply imprinted in the heart of Prince Akihito ever since.
Unlike the princess elected by the general royal family, Michiko is a special presence in Akihito's heart, she is not only exquisite in her skills, but also beautiful and talented. Akihito was not blinded by the secular hierarchy, and did not dislike Michiko from the commoners, but after identifying Michiko, he painstakingly launched a series of pursuits, although it went through twists and turns, but in the end Prince Akihito won the heart of Michiko, and the prince and Cinderella fell in love.
In 1959, Akihito and Michiko held a grand royal wedding.
Michiko became The first empress of Japanese history to be born as a commoner.
The Emperor did not hesitate to abdicate in pursuit of her
Despite Michiko's talent and wealth, in the eyes of the Japanese imperial family, only nobles can be worthy of the noble blood of the imperial family, and commoners are only the lower classes no matter how rich they are. In order to ensure that the royal bloodline is pure enough, the Japanese imperial family even explicitly stipulates that all the descendants of the imperial family, including princes and crown princes,
Marriage to civilians is prohibited
。 So, when the imperial family learned that Prince Akihito was going to marry a commoner, the entire imperial family, and even the entire Japanese people, exploded. In particular, the Japanese imperial family strongly opposed this marriage, but Akihito did not compromise, making it clear that he would not marry Michiko in this life, and even forced him to abdicate. If you really don't love the country and love the beauty.
In fact, the Japanese imperial family is not without reason for its opposition, because Prince Akihito is the eldest son, he is the first boy of Emperor Showa, that is, the first heir of the Japanese imperial family, Akihito's wife is the future empress, and it is simply a shame for the imperial family to let the commoners become empresses. In addition, the Japanese Imperial Family had originally selected the candidate for the future Imperial Princess for Akihito, and wanted to fight for power and profit through the Imperial Princess.
Despite being obstructed by various forces, Akihito's attitude was still resolute, and after many considerations, Akihito's father finally had to compromise and agree to the marriage.
The prince and Cinderella finally cultivated the right fruit, and the happy knot was linked. But reality is not a beautiful fairy tale after all, and Michiko, who married into the imperial family, did not live a good life because of this, but was bound by the shackles of the Japanese imperial family. Fortunately, Emperor Akihito's love for Michiko has stood the test of time.
Since Emperor Akihito ascended the throne in 1989, he has been in power for three decades, celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of his marriage to Empress Michiko, ushering in a diamond wedding before abdicating.
Although it is the old age, we can still see the sweetness of Akihito and Michiko full of love between them.