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RECOVERING. CROWN PRINCESS MASAKO, 36, of Japan's imperial family; following surgery after a miscarriage; in Tokyo. The announcement last month of the Princess's pregnancy, which could have resulted in the first direct heir to the throne since 1965, inspired a national media frenzy...
...often get compared to Masako [Owada '85], the Crown Princess [of Japan] who graduated from Harvard," Suzuki says. "They somehow think that I am destined to marry royalty or something along those lines...
Crown Prince Naruhito (with his wife Masako) is heir to a clan that claimed divinity until Japan's defeat in World War II. Imperial brides till then had come from the nobility. But the Prince's mother, the Empress Michiko, is a commoner, as is Masako...
First, Sawano slips into the since-I-go-to-Harvard-I-must-be-better-than-you condescension which is always obnoxious. She sneers at the princess for being a "giggly high school dropout" and compares Diana to her personal favorites, Japan's Princess Masako '85, who graduated from fair Harvard, and Jordan's Queen Noor who has a pretty Princeton degree in her cache. One does not need an Ivy League diploma to have compassion, nor does having compassion come with being a student of the Ivy League. But then again, Sawano proved the latter condition with her article...
...princesses than Diana in this world. If only the international media was not English-dominated, we in America would have had much better model female consorts to follow. Take, for instance, Princess Alexandra of Denmark. A Eurasian former economist, she works hard to improve Danish trade. Or Crown Princess Masako of Japan '85, who was able to adapt herself to a most private and ancient family without a murmur. Look at Queen Noor of Jordan. As an American woman, she had been one of the first co-eds at Princeton, studying architecture. She was an anti-Vietnam activist. Then...