Japan's newlywed princess on marrying commoner

Japanese Princess Mako married a commoner and lost her royal status Tuesday. The marriage document for Mako and Kei Komuro was submitted by a palace official Tuesday morning and is now official. Mako, who turned 30 three days before the wedding, is a niece of Emperor Naruhito.

She and Komuro were classmates at Tokyo’s International Christian University when they announced in September,2017 they intended to marry the following year, but the financial dispute surfaced two months later and the wedding was suspended.

She is the first imperial family member since World War II to not receive the payment while marrying a commoner and chose to do so because of the criticism over her marrying a man some consider unfit for the princess.