Japan's Princess Mako sacrifices her royal status to marry her college sweetheart (BBC) She also turned down a $1.3m severance package from the royal family.
He didn't say "true love" he said "tuh blave" which means "to bluff" so someone caught him cheating at cards, and...
Love the double standard at play there: Japanese female royalty marrying 'commoners' forfeit their royalty, but male royalty marrying 'commoners' do not
She should've taken the money, but if she's happy, I'm happy. One less welfare leech for the Japan taxpayers to take care of.
Of course, with Princess Mako gone, there are now exactly 12 members of the royal family and the lack of male heirs has been having people say "Hey, maybe we ought to revisit this whole male lineage thing if we're gonna keep this emperor system going, yanno?", to which the government and/or royal family is like "lol no " I mean, if they wanna die out rather than update, that's a decision to make after 100+ generations but even the UK changed their rule on that (although if I'm being jaded, I suspect in vitro will scan for girl fetuses in first-born children from here on out anyway, but it's the thought that counts)
