Source: Global Times
This past weekend, Jennifer Gates, the eldest daughter of American billionaire Bill Gates, 25, married an Egyptian equestrian on a $16 million farm under Jennifer Gates' name. The first comment on the Japanese news website was: "This is much happier than Princess Mako." ”
Princess Mako's wedding date is also near, but the controversy continues. According to the Asahi Shimbun, at 7:50 a.m. on the 18th, Princess Mako's fiancé, Kei Komuro, who had just returned from studying in the United States, got into a special bus prepared by the Japanese Imperial Household Agency and set off from his residence in Yokohama to visit his parents-in-law, the Emperor's younger brother and sister-in-law, Prince Akishinomiya, and his wife, Princess Kiko. This is also the first time that Kei Komuro has met his fiancée Mako after more than 3 years.
According to the "Tokyo Shimbun" reported on the 18th, in addition to discussing the matter of registering a marriage on October 26, the main thing is that Komuro Kei wants to explain his living conditions in the United States and his mother's financial disputes to the Akishinomi family. From the photos taken by the media, it can be seen that Kei Komuro's much-criticized ponytail on the day of his return from the United States has been cut.
Japan's news-postseven news network reported on the 18th that in order to avoid the outside world from treating the scandal of the Komuro family as a royal scandal, the Akishinomiya couple had considered not seeing Kei Komuro, and today's meeting is also likely to be the last time, and Kei Komuro will hardly have the opportunity to meet the Japanese imperial family in the future.
Princess Mako and Kei Komuro announced their engagement in 2017, but it was later rumored that Kei Komuro's mother had a financial dispute with someone, owed at least 4 million yen in debt and had a complicated private life, resulting in the postponement of the marriage. On October 1 this year, Japan's Miyauchi Agency announced that the two will register their marriage on the 26th of this month and will not hold any marriage-related ceremonies such as weddings.
According to a statement by Japan's Imperial Household Agency, Makoto voluntarily gave up to receiving up to 150 million yen (about 8.43 million yuan) of "temporary gold" - that is, the dowry of the royal family's daughter, and after marriage, she will move with Kei Komuro to New York.
Some analysts say that from a formal point of view, the true son will not marry in the way of the royal princess, from which we can see the determination of the true son to insist on marrying: the people oppose the use of taxes as a dowry to paste the small room family, then do not want the dowry; the people oppose this marriage, then go away after marriage.
Japan's Imperial Household Agency also announced to the media that Princess Mako was diagnosed with "complicated post-traumatic stress disorder" by doctors because of the controversy over her marriage. Some commentators speculate that the Miyauchi Agency blew up princess Mako's illness, which may be hoping to get the sympathy and understanding of the public, but the effect is counterproductive, and many Japanese people believe that the princess should not make major decisions, such as marriage, under abnormal circumstances of illness.
There are also Japanese media reports that the opposition to the marriage of Princess Mako has seen a phenomenon of "mother-in-lawization of the whole people" in Japan - as if choosing a husband for her daughter, and there has been a demonstration in Tokyo recently, which is a phenomenon that has never been seen before for female members of the Japanese imperial family to marry. However, Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun and Mainichi Shimbun reported princess Mako's marriage style
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