Mako Komuro, formerly Princess Mako and niece to Emperor Naruhito, has delivered her first child; the Imperial Household Agency, while confirming the birth amidst burgeoning media speculation, has elected to withhold both the date and gender of the infant, citing Komuro's forfeiture of imperial status following her controversial marriage to commoner Kei Komuro in 2021, a union predicated on the exigencies of Japan’s Imperial House Law; the couple, now domiciled in New York where Komuro pursues his legal career, have received felicitations from Mako's immediate family, despite the nuptial's protracted postponement due to a protracted financial imbroglio involving Komuro's mother, and Mako's unprecedented declination of the customary dowry attendant upon her relinquishment of royal prerogative.