Okay, let’s extinguish this one. There are ZERO comparisons between Meghan Markle leaving the British Royal Family and Princess Mako exiting the Japanese Imperial Family. So, the Sugars can jump off that bandwagon because your illusions of grandeur are weighing down on your rational sensibilities. Anyway, that isn’t why we’re here.
It has come to our attention that the Sugars are now comparing Meghan with Princess Mako, who has recently stepped down from her royal duties to marry her “commoner” fiancé. Why the Sussex Squad would be doing this is bizarre. They believe that the narrative of “royal meets commoner, falls in love and marries” started with Harry and Meghan. It did not. There have been numerous stories like this for centuries. One of the most famous comes from Harry’s family with his great-great-uncle Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne to marry Wallis Simpson.
While the British Royal Family have changed the rules over the years, very little has been done regarding Japan’s Imperial family. It has stayed relatively the same over the centuries, where women are seen as potentially worthless while the men become Emperor. No woman has ever inherited the throne. Also, the amount of male heirs has dwindled.
Princess Mako Is Not Prince Harry Or Meghan Markle In This Scenario
Let’s set the scene, shall we? Princess Mako is a niece of Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and the eldest daughter of the heir apparent, Fumihito, the Crown Prince. In May 2017, Princess Mako became engaged to her college boyfriend, Kei Komuro.
Meghan Markle is the only daughter of retired Lighting director Thomas Markle and his second ex-wife, Doria Ragland. She has two older paternal half-siblings. In 2011, she married Hollywood producer Trevor Engelson after dating him for almost a decade before divorcing him in 2013. Once November 2017 rolled around, she was engaged to Prince Harry, a grandson of Queen Elizabeth II of England. Moreover, we know this. Now, there’s already a difference here.
Princess Mako met Kei in college as laid out by CNN for Nine Honey. Meanwhile, Meghan met Harry in 2016 around May or July, depending on the source. By November of the following year, Markle and Harry were engaged. Princess Mako and Kei, however, may have met around 2014-ish as they attended the International Christian University together. However, there is no public information regarding this.
Anyway, there is a difference between the scenarios. Princess Mako and Kei knew each other a few years before they got engaged. Harry and Meghan knew each other not even a year before they announced their engagement.
Statuses
Meghan did not give up her title upon leaving the British Royal Family. She does not possess the title herself. Her “Duchess of Sussex” moniker is simply an add-on to her husband’s dukedom. Not to mention, despite no longer being working royals, neither of the Sussexes are willing to depart with the titles because it’s the only asset they have that will make them money.
Princess Mako, however, was born to royalty and therefore, had a title given to her. However, since her husband is a commoner, it is standard practice for royal women to drop their titles if they marry men who are commoners. An example of this is Princess Mako’s paternal aunt, Sayako Kuroda, who married a commoner in 2005. It’s interesting to note that almost twenty years later, Sayako’s niece would do the same.
The Wedding And The Move To The USA
Princess Mako didn’t have a fancy wedding and chose to marry Kei at a registration office in Tokyo. After this, they held a small press conference to confirm that Mako would be giving up her royal status. This was followed by a move to the USA where Kei works as a lawyer. There was no fanfare regarding her departure from royal life as she knew it was coming. Also, the press loved Princess Mako. They applauded her manners and politeness.
Meghan, however, married Harry in a ceremony worth millions of dollars with all the fanfare you would expect from a British Royal wedding. She later told Oprah that she married her prince in their back garden three days before the actual event, which would’ve been illegal and was later proven to be a lie. What pissed people off was that she called the wedding “a spectacle for the world”. The British taxpayer helped to fund the event that she treated like a networking venture. Look at what Harry’s godmother asked the Clooneys for clarification on that one. As for the move to the US, well, the Harkles had to wait for 18-months to make their grand exit in the most dramatic way possible.
They did what could be considered a “mercy dash”, as they couldn’t wait to leave as they thought being a royal was like being trapped in a cult. Moreover, this is where they also used the excuse that the press was a menace and that racism played a part in why they left. We know this is far from the truth. There was only ever a handful of publications that wrote racist things about Meghan. Also, did Harry know that his wife would ring the paparazzi herself?
Reception From The Public
To end this post, we wanted to address the reception both Meghan and Harry and Mako and Kei have had. Let’s begin with the Sussexes.
When it was announced that Harry had met Meghan and that she was a biracial American who’d be divorced, the world was so happy for him. At last, the little boy who had walked behind his mother’s coffin at the age of 12 had finally found ‘The One.’ For a few months, the public was incredibly supportive and were overjoyed when the couple announced they were expecting their first child. However, things soured when stories came out about how Meghan had been mean to Catherine’s staff and had to be put in her place. Let’s not forget the drama surrounding the wedding.
Finally, we reach Princess Mako. The Japanese public wasn’t as welcoming to Kei as the British public was to Meghan. The media criticised Kei’s “commoner” life before meeting Princess Mako. Also, there was an issue where Kei’s mother and what we think is her former fiancée getting into financial trouble, according to Liam Hess of Vogue. Now, we’re not sure if this Mako’s mother-in-law’s former fiancée or if it means Mako was engaged before. It’s likely the latter, as in the mother-in-law.
