Weddings are supposed to be a day of untainted love and joy.
But not so for Japan’s Princess Mako, who has today renounced her royal title after going against tradition to marry her university sweetheart.
The issue has arisen because her long-term boyfriend Kei Komuro, 30, a lawyer with a New York law firm whom she met at Tokyo’s International Christian University almost a decade ago, is a commoner.
By marrying him today, Mako, 30, the eldest daughter of Crown