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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Sravasti Dasgupta

Japan’s former princess Mako Komuro gets her first US job as museum volunteer after renouncing crown for love

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Former Japanese princess Mako Komuro, who lost her royal status last year after she married commoner Kei Komuro, is reportedly working in the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The 30-year-old princess married Mr Komuro at a Tokyo registry office on 26 October. She forfeited the usual customs of a royal wedding, and refused a ¥140m (£854,000) payment that she was entitled to as a royal female leaving the imperial family.

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