Never been thought that a life of a Princess could be hard such Princess Aiko. The Japan’s princess Aiko has been off school since early this week.
According to, Issei Nomura, a royal household spokesman, said that princess Aiko being bullied at school. The princess complained a stomachache and expressed deep anxiety.
It’s found that she and other students in her class had been “treated harshly” by boys from another class.
Mr. Nomura did not mentioned when the granddaughter of Emperor Akihito will be return to Gakushuin Primary School. He added that the palace had asked the school to address the matter and had been given permission to publicise the princess’s situation, the Japanese news agency Kyodo reports.
Mr. Nomura declined comment of princess Aiko parents.
Gakushuin Primary school director, Motomasa Higashisono said to reporters that the incident might be a simple misunderstanding,
“She had decided to leave school, and just as she had returned from changing into her normal shoes from her school shoes, I hear it was two boys that approached very suddenly and nearly collided with her, which scared her.”(In Japan, school children have a separate pair of shoes for school)
Prince Naruhito, princess Aiko’s father is going to visit Africa starting Saturday, but without accompanied of Princess Masako.
Princess Masako has not attended to the official duties for several years since she suffered from a nervous disorder to the difficulties to adjust ting into palace life and the pressure to bear a son.
After suffering a miscarriage in 1999, Masako gave birth to Aiko in 2001. The lack of a male heir fanned a movement to change the law to allow Aiko to succeed her father.
But Naruhito’s younger brother, Prince Akishino, and his wife Princess Kiko had a baby boy in 2006, who is now third in line to the throne.
