HER grandmother and aunt weren’t born with royal blood, yet both became empresses of Japan. So when Princess Mako of Japan’s Imperial family fell in love with a commoner it shouldn’t have been a big deal.
Yet it very much was – especially when the man who’d stolen her heart was branded a gold-digger.
Kei Komuro was not the man for her, the nation and her family declared.
But Mako wasn’t having it.
And in the end they’ve been dubbed Japan’s Meghan and Harry because of the parallels: a royal falls in love with a commoner, then rejects the wealth, status and privilege that come with being