Foreign media reported on October 27 that after years of delay, The Japanese Princess Makoto Prince Uchiha finally consummated her marriage to her "commoner" lover. At the same time, she renounced her royal status. Their love story is known as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle of Japan
Prince Makochi, who married her college classmate Kei Komuro, was married on Tuesday (October 26, 2021) without a traditional royal wedding ceremony.
Prince Makoto, the niece of Emperor Intoku, renounced her status as a member of the Japanese royal family. Because according to Japanese law, female members of the imperial family are married to commoners, and they need to give up their royal family membership. After marriage, she and her husband prepared to move to New York to start their new life.
Mako and her husband attended the press conference. She said at the meeting that although their wedding was postponed for 3 years and there was a lot of negative public opinion, it could not stop their wedding, "This is an inevitable decision we make following our own hearts." ”
When did Prince Makoto and Kei Komuro meet and know each other?
Both are 30 years old. They met in 2012 while attending international Christian university in New York.
After the wedding was postponed for three years, Prince Makochi and Kei Komuro were finally married
Mako and Kei Komuro are known as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle of Japan. They were engaged in 2017 and planned to complete the next year, but their wedding was postponed due to a financial dispute over Kei Komuro's mother.
Although the royal family had previously come out to deny that the wedding postponement had nothing to do with financial problems, Prince Akihito said the financial problems needed to be resolved before they got married.
Kei Komuro went to New York in 2018 to study law, and returned to Japan last month to be criticized by various public opinions for marrying a royal princess.
Despite facing a lot of negative public opinion, they eventually tied the knot. "For me, Kei Komuro is priceless," Says Makoto.
Kei Komuro responded: "I love Makoto, I only live once in my life, I want to spend time with the person I love, I want to have a warm family with her." ”
Why did Prince Makoto renounce his royal status?
Mako lost her royal status because the imperial law stipulated that only male members could inherit the royal status.
This meant that only male members had imperial status, while female members had only status, and when she married a commoner, she had to leave her royal status.
Prince Makochi was the first female member of the royal family not to receive royal grants and not to hold royal weddings.
Japanese law requires women to give up their original surnames after marriage and follow their husbands' surnames, and Prince Makoto changed her name to "Makoto Komuro" after marriage.
It is reported that Prince Makochi will not receive a grant of 1,500 yen (about 83,940 yuan) for leaving the imperial family. She will be the first member of the royal family not to receive a secession grant after World War 2. She chose to give up the grant because of public criticism of her marriage.
At the same time, she chose not to hold the traditional royal wedding ceremony. As a result, she became the first female member in Japan to be exempted from imperial grants and ceremonies.