Princess Mako & Co .: These royals have given up their title out of love

Princess Mako, Prince Philip & Co.
These royals have given up their title out of love

Princess Mako’s love for a commoner met with great resistance after her engagement was announced in 2017. In addition, a financial scandal in the family of her loved one delayed her wedding by around four years, and her father refused to give his consent. And even the most beautiful day of her life was clouded by numerous protests and an overall rather depressed mood.

Princess Mako is now called Ms. Mako Komuro

Now Mako and Kei are finally free. But that has its price. Princess Mako not only loses her title of nobility and is now on the move as a private person, she also renounces the traditional payment from the government after the marriage. In the case of Princess Mako, this would amount to 1.3 million US dollars (1.1 million euros), but the 30-year-old has refused. She wants to “start a new life” with her husband.

Princess Ayako also had to leave the imperial family

Previously, the former princess Ayako married the middle-class businessman Kei Moriya in 2018. She too had to leave the imperial family and part with her royal status. Ayako is the daughter of Princess Hisako and Prince Takamado, who died in 2002, and a cousin of the former Emperor Akihito.

Princess Sayako is missing from official family photos

That was what happened to Princess Sayako. The daughter of Emperor Akihito married the civil city planner Yoshiki Kuroda in 2005 and had to give up her title and leave the imperial family. The former princess is not even shown in the official family photos. After the wedding, she quit her job as an ornithologist to focus on family planning. To this day, Sayako is childless.

King Edward VIII renounced his title and throne

A decision for love has a long tradition in the royal families. As early as 1937 there was probably the greatest scandal of the British Royal Family. King Edward VIII fell in love with the American Wallis Simpson and abdicated out of love for her and renounced the throne. A momentous decision: his younger brother George, the father of today’s Queen Elizabeth, suddenly had to move up.

Prince Philip gave up his prince title

The late Prince Philip, † 99, also dared to take a significant step for Queen Elizabeth: he gave up his title Prince of Greece and Denmark, converted to the Church of England and took on British citizenship. All of this was not easy for him, but his decisions have paid off: The Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Elizabeth were happily married for 73 years until the Prince Consort took his last breath on April 9, 2021 at Windsor Castle.

Prince Friso: Government refused to approve the wedding

Even in the Netherlands, things didn’t always go as the royal family wanted. Prince Friso, † 44, married the middle-class Mabel Wisse Smit in 2004, although parliament and government refused to give their consent. The reason: Mabel was friends with the Dutch drug lord Klaas Bruinsma. But Friso’s love was stronger, he gave up his right to the Dutch throne for his wife, lost the title “Prince of the Netherlands” and his membership in the Dutch royal family. Then he got the title “Prince of Orange-Nassau” with the salutation “Royal Highness”.

Prince Friso died on August 12, 2013 at Huis ten Bosch Castle of complications as a result of brain damage in his skiing accident in 2012. He was only 44 years old.

Source used: own research

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