Princess Elisabeth has completed first year of master’s degree but Trump administration’s crackdown may jeopardise studies
Princess Elisabeth, the 23-year-old future queen of Belgium, has just completed her first year at Harvard University but the ban imposed by Donald Trump’s administration on foreign students studying there could jeopardise her continued attendance.
The US president’s administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enrol international students on Thursday, and is forcing current foreign students to transfer to other schools or lose their legal status in the US, while also threatening to expand the crackdown to other colleges.
“Princess Elisabeth has just completed her first year. The impact of [the Trump administration’s] decision will only become clearer in the coming days/weeks. We are currently investigating the situation,” said a spokesperson for the Belgian royal palace, Lore Vandoorne.
I am anti-monarchy and I don’t particularly give a shit that this woman has to change universities or whatever, but quite frankly I’m shocked by the amount of comments here hoping for horrific things to happen to a woman just for being born into a family they don’t like.
It’s the toxic cesspool of the anonymous internet. All these communities are the same.
Its just “The Greater Internet Dickhead Theory”, if there are no consequences for what you say, dickheads will say anything they can get away with.
But lemmy is in no way anonymous.
Really? Who am I?
poopkins Duh!
I thought the royals in mainland Europe were generally well-liked? I’m only basing this on the lack of negative attention they get compared to the British royal family.
I’m British so I can’t really say, but I think if not more well-liked, they’re at least more low key. Britain made its royal family part of its brand, and with that comes a lot more coverage, better or worse.