Download or read book The Thames and I written by Naruhito and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardback published 2006; softback reprint published to mark ascendancy to imperial throne in 2019. Became Crown Prince of Japan in 1989, on death of his grandfather Emperor Showa, Prince Naruhito studied at Merton College, Oxford, 1983-1985. This marked the first time that anyone in direct succession to the throne had ever studied outside Japan.