A book by a female member of the royal family sold 300,000 copies within three months of its release! Behind the Scenes of Her Imperial Highness Princess Akiko’s Hit Book on her Study at Oxford

She sometimes uses “budget airline tickets” when traveling in Europe.

Nakamura says that the reason why “Red and Blue Gowns” has been read so many times is because the personality of Her Imperial Highness Princess Akiko is reflected in her writings.

The daily lives of the royal family, which are not easily accessible to the general public, can be easily accessed in the paperback edition. I think the reason for the success of the book is that the paperback edition makes it easy for the public to learn about the daily lives of the royal family, which are not easily accessible to the general public. The book is full of intelligence, culture, and of course humor, and is so fascinating that you will find yourself reading it over and over again,” says Nakamura.

Although she is currently engaged in a wide range of activities, including many official duties and a recent unofficial visit to Bhutan by invitation from the royal family, we were surprised to learn that she spent her days as an exchange student in Bhutan with the same sense of lifestyle as an ordinary foreign student.

For example, the ticket he purchased to attend a research meeting in Germany was a low-cost airline ticket.

In addition, “I am not proud of it, but when I travel, some sort of incident usually occurs,” wrote Her Imperial Highness Princess Akiko, and it seems that there were indeed various happenings.

For example, when I bought a ticket for “Hamburg-Lubeck Airport” to go to Hamburg, I found that the airport was not Hamburg Airport, which is only 20 minutes away from the city, but Lubeck Airport, which is 70 minutes away from the city. No way.

By the time I realized it, it was already too late. He said, “I had saved a lot of money up to that point, so I will never forget the sad feeling I had when the hundred-euro bill disappeared from my hand. He later learned that there was actually a bus from Hamburg to the airport, and that it cost only 5 euros, which made him “feel very sad.

For students, cooking for themselves is both a pleasure and a hardship, but it is also written that when Her Imperial Highness Princess Akiko started cooking for herself and found shimeji mushrooms at a supermarket, she was so happy that she brought them to the cashier, but was told they cost 5 pounds (more than 1,000 yen at that time), so she gave up crying.

On the other hand, she was invited by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (who died in 1947) to afternoon tea at Buckingham Palace, and when she missed Japanese bath salts, she asked a Japanese lady-in-waiting to send them to her, and they came in a paulownia wood box. She also introduced an episode of “a member of the imperial family”.

A touching episode of father-son love with the late His Imperial Highness Prince Tomohito

The episode that left the greatest impression on me was when he wondered whether he should attend the degree conferment ceremony at Oxford,” said Mr. Nakamura.

The award ceremony will be held on May 28, 2011. It was only about two months after the unprecedented natural disaster of the Great East Japan Earthquake, and it was easy to imagine that some people might have wondered whether it was appropriate for the royal family to go abroad for a celebratory event.

At such a time, His Imperial Highness Prince Tomohito said, 《If you don’t attend this once-in-a-generation, once-in-a-lifetime ceremony, you will regret it. I will suppress any noises that might appear in a written announcement or press conference, so go ahead and do so without anxiety,” he said.

Among his many interactions with the father, “I was particularly moved by this scene, which is told at the beginning of this book,” Nakamura said.