Japanese Princess Ayako Wed Today, Giving up Her Royal Title
If you had to give up everything you knew for love, are you confident that you would choose your partner every time" On Monday in Tokyo, Japan’s 28-year-old Princess Ayako did just that by marrying Kei Moriya, a non-royal. On her wedding day, Princess Ayako wore a large, delicate yellow kimono with pink flowers and had extravagantly molded hair?typical of imperial aristocracy?while the groom wore a traditional western-style black tuxedo. While Princess Ayako gained a husband today, saying in a news conference, “I’m filled with joy to get married and to have so many people visit us at the Meiji Shrine and congratulate us,” she also effectively renounced her royal title.
In Japanese Imperial law, the female members of the royal family are required to let go of their royal titles if they choose to marry someone without ties to a royal or aristocratic family. (This is not true of the men in the royal family, who are free to marry whomever they like.) Because her new husband has no royal connections?and is instead a humble employee of a shipping company?this means that all of Princess Ayako’s money, status and her title ended today. She’s not coming away with nothing, however. The Japanese government will reportedly owe her a cool $950,000 for living expenses, but her royal life as she knows it is over.
The news of the couple’s engagement this past summer was met with a whirlwind of press and questions about their romance, which ...
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