After years of controversy, Japan’s Princess Mako will marry her former classmate, a commoner, this month ... to be dealt with before they got married. Princess Mako will reportedly forego ...

Today, that story comes courtesy of Princess ... be a member of the Japanese imperial family. In Japan, female royals are forced to give up their title if they marry a ‘commoner’: male royals ...

Under Japan’s male-only royal succession law, Princess Mako forfeited her royal status when she married a commoner. She recently spent her last birthday as a member of the royal family ...

Emperor Naruhito’s niece Princess Mako is set to leave the Imperial Family – and Japan – as she marries the ponytailed ... Family upon marriage to a commoner, plan to forge a new life ...

Japan's Princess Mako has finally married her commoner boyfriend and left the Imperial Family. The engagement was postponed for more than four years due to questions of suitability.

is the sole child of Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako - but as a female she currently can't take the country's throne Another key figure, Princess Mako, married commoner Kei Komuro in ...

Because of a press blackout, most Japanese were unaware that a girl from the Shoda family was about to become the first commoner crown princess in history. But that the news has spread to the ...

The 29-year-old royal arrived in Greece on Sunday for an official visit READ MORE: Princess Mako bows out of Japan's royal family as she marries commoner Princess Kako of Japan looked elegant as ...

Princess Kako ... family in October upon her marriage to commoner Kei Komuro. Kako’s aide says that she is happy that Mako could get married as she desired, and that she very much wishes ...