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Photo from EFE, princess Amalia
Amalia,the crown princess of the Netherlands, has obtained a place at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) to study at In September a career in Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics, breaking the family tradition of graduating from Leiden, where his father, Guillermo Alejandro, graduated. in History in 1993.
The 18-year-old plans to live in a shared rental apartment with several of her roommates in & Aacute ;msterdam , where will be moved after the summer after finishing his sabbatical year, which he dedicated to mainly to do volunteer work and travel, although less than possible due to the covid-19 pandemic.
As explained by According to the Dutch Government Information Service (RVD), the eldest daughter of King Willem-Alexander and Máxima has successfully completed the entire admission and selection process last year at the UvA under the same conditions as other candidates for the same interdisciplinary studies, which are taught in English and not in Dutch.
“The princess study stage is considered private,” hello the RVD in a terse statement.
The race will cost you a lot. 4,418 euros per year to the royal family, double that of most full-time university programs.
The princess has chosen a different student city than her father, her grandmother Beatriz and her great-grandmother Juliana. During her college years, she is expected to occasionally perform official duties, as long as they can be combined with her studies.
UvA herself underlines her “pride” That the princess has chosen her “challenging and versatile study programme, which has 220 other classmates from both the Netherlands and abroad. p>
“We teach students to work in groups and to analyze issues from different angles. The coronavirus crisis, for example, was not only about health, but also about the interests of businessmen, loneliness and fundamental rights”, he explained. the dean of the program, Radboud Winkels.
The mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, has underlined thatHe hopes that Amalia “will have a great student life” in the next three years of her degree and gave her a “warm welcome” to the capital. The young woman now resides in the Huis ten Bosch Palace in The Hague with her parents and her sister Ariadna, 15. & Nbsp;
Her middle sister Alexia, 16, has been studying her International Baccalaureate since last year at the UWC Atlantic College boarding school, located in South Wales (United Kingdom), where she is also studying this year. Princess Leonor of Spain.
Amalia became a princess. She was officially the heir to the throne when she turned 18 on December 7, at which time she was presented to the Council of State, where she took over. la esca de ella & ñ de ella; or as a member without voting power.
The young woman admitted, in a brief speech then read in the company of the king and queen, that she realizes “how little she knows about the tasks of government, the evaluation of laws and the operation of government.” of the administration”, and underlined that she is aware that &ldquoshe still has a lot to learn” before she inherit the throne that her father now occupies.
“I am at the service of my country. I give my life to the Netherlands & rdquo; the young woman in a biography published on the eve of her birthday. “The monarchy is much bigger than me. I was born I came into a life that I had to accept and in some ways it is still difficult, but on the other hand I have totally accepted it: this goes much further than that. of my person”, he admitted.
In any case, the young woman is clear that, if something happens to her father in the short term, her mother, Queen Má; xima, it will be done charge of the throne until she is ready. list.
In that same biography, Amalia also tried to to open up more about her life: he recognized & oacute; his frequent visits to the psychologist to “let off steam” When she has a difficult time, she talked. of work in a beach bar preparing cocktails and mentioned her love for music.
When she comes of age , Amalia is also entitled to receive an annual salary of 300,000 euros, at that I resigned last year because she, she said, she felt “uncomfortable” charging such a high salary when she has “little to offer in return” and even more “with the uncertainty caused by the pandemic”, he argued. in a handwritten letter to the Prime Minister, Mark Rutte.
She also receives another 1.3 million euros to cover expenses that her role as princess entails, an amount to the one that she promised & oacute; resort only if she needs it.