{"id":164598,"date":"2025-06-07T03:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T03:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/164598\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T03:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T03:09:09","slug":"former-princess-who-left-the-royal-family-welcomes-first-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/164598\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Princess Who Left the Royal Family Welcomes First Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For reference, Princess Mako left the Imperial Family\u2014relinquishing her royal title in the process\u2014after marrying Kei Komuro, a former classmate, but also a commoner. The pair moved to New York City to start a new life together in 2021, with Komuro turning down a $1.3 million royal payout she was entitled to after losing her status due to her marriage. (Komuro works in the city as a lawyer while Princess Mako recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purewow.com\/news\/mako-komuro-new-job-nyc\" target=\"_blank\" data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"1\" rel=\"noopener\">secured a job at the Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>At the time of her marriage, Princess Mako gave a statement about her choice with her new husband, Komuro, explaining their decision: \u201cI love Mako. We only get one life, and I want us to spend it with the one we love.\u201d Four years later\u2014and with their family expanding, plus baby\u2014their love story continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For reference, Princess Mako left the Imperial Family\u2014relinquishing her royal title in the process\u2014after marrying Kei Komuro, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-164598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114639887616877015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}