King Charles receives unhappy information from Japan
Princess Yuriko, the spouse of wartime Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of Japan’s imperial household, handed away on the age of 101 on Friday in a Tokyo hospital, Imperial Family Company has confirmed.
Yuriko was born in 1923 and married to Prince Mikasa in 1941, the youthful brother of Hirohito and the uncle of present Emperor Naruhito.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla welcomed Japanese Emperor and Empress to Buckingham Palace in June. On the time, a overseas ministry official stated it was hoped the go to would forge “friendly relations across generations”.
Yuriko raised 5 kids and supported Mikasa’s analysis into historic Close to Jap historical past. She took half in philanthropic actions. She outlived her husband and all three sons.
The youngest male member of the imperial household, Prince Hisahito — the nephew of Emperor Naruhito — is at the moment the final inheritor obvious, posing a significant downside for a system that doesn’t permit empresses.
Yuriko had lived a wholesome life as a centenarian earlier than struggling a stroke and pneumonia in March. She was hospitalised after her stroke and had been out and in of intensive care since then. Her total situation deteriorated over the previous week, the Imperial Family Company stated.