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When Mako, then a Japanese princess, announced her engagement to former classmate Kei Komuro in 2017, she said he had won over her heart with "his bright smiles like the sun".

The two had met five years earlier when they were both university students, and shared their plans to wed the following year. It meant the princess would become an ordinary citizen, as female imperial family members forfeit their royal status upon marriage to a commoner.

Their smiles won over a country where the imperial family is closely scrutinised and its members are expected to be a guardian of traditions. The intense media coverage was mostly positive.

But that quickly changed.

Two months later, the first reports emerged about an alleged money dispute between Mr Komuro's mother and her former fiancé, who claimed mother and son had failed to repay a debt to him. Some questioned whether Mr Kumoro could struggle financially in the future.

Public perception soured. With the official explanation that the couple needed more time to arrange their ceremony, their wedding ended up postponed.

The former princess, who is now known as Mako Komuro, is the first child of the current empero

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EXCLUSIVE: Japan's Princess Mako shops for towels at Bed, Bath & Beyond and then gets LOST on way home to Hell's Kitchen on week after arriving in NYC to start new life with her 'commoner' husband

Princess Mako from Japan is getting her first taste of life as a commoner in New York City where she's now living with her new husband, Kei Komuro, after sensationally giving up her royal title last month. 

The eldest daughter of Crown Prince Fumihito and niece of reigning Emperor Naruhito was spotted over the weekend for the first time since trading Tokyo's Imperial Palace for the bright lights of the Big Apple. 

The former royal, 30, who now goes simply by Mako Komuro, made a trip to Bed, Bath & Beyond Friday to pick up some home essentials for the couple's new marital home in Hell's Kitchen. 

Exclusive DailyMail.com photos show Mako at the home furnishings store where she spent about an hour and half shopping for bath towels, coat hangers, organizer baskets, some paper towels, and other items. 

Mako was alone during the outing and pushed her own shopping cart around the store and had no security detail protecting her. She was dressed in a long forest green coat, black top, and blue jeans - a much more casual look than the modest, formal attire she regularly wore in pu