Princess Amalia breaks with another Orange tradition

At the end of May, the Royal House announced the decision that Princess Amalia had made regarding her future as a student. It was then that the first of the family traditions with which the heiress to the throne will break in a few weeks at the beginning of a new phase of her life was revealed. This September, Amalia will end her sabbatical year to start her studies at the University of Amsterdam.

In this way, the daughter of Kings Guillermo and Máxima of Holland broke with the family tradition of studying, as did her father and formerly her grandmother Beatriz; at Leiden University, the oldest in the country. The young 18-year-old heiress has chosen to go her own way and has decided to enroll at the University of Amsterdam, where she will “live in a rented house where she will live with other students,” Casa Real reported. few months back. “I’m really looking forward to the day. I hope to meet a lot of people and learn new things, but studies come first; It’s not just fun and party,” Amalia confessed at the beginning of July in her famous interview with Jeroen Snel. According to Rick Evers, information expert of the Dutch royal family, Amalia will live in a house on the famous canals of the capital; whose owners are close friends of their parents.

Next September, the heir to the throne of the Netherlands will start a new phase of her life in the Dutch capital, more than 60 kilometers from her parents’ official residence in The Hague. Princess Amalia will be studying Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics for three years at the University of Amsterdam, where she will follow a unique Dutch program, the lessons of which will be taught in English. It’s just another of Princess Amalia’s decisions regarding college, which made the heiress to the throne once again break with a family tradition.

Princess Amalia of the Netherlands has decided not to join the student association of the University of Amsterdam; thus breaking with the custom that the royal family has had for generations of joining this kind of brotherhood. A tradition that goes back to his great-grandmother, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands; and that Amalia will now break the Orange because of the misogyny criticism that said student group has received in recent weeks. And it is that some of its members starred in several sexist speeches at a party that took place on July 24. They said, among other things, that “women are buckets of sperm”, and suggested “breaking their necks to penetrate them”. At lunch they were also called “whores”, as a refrain.

The leak of a video showing the unfortunate behavior of some students has sparked a wave of criticism across the country; and a total of 270 students have already handed over a letter condemning this unacceptable attitude. In addition, both the chairman of the board and three of his male members announced their resignations as soon as these videos came to light. As a result, the young Dutch heiress has decided to completely separate herself from the association ASC/AVSV, where students from the University of Amsterdam can also register for students from the Vrije Universiteit or the Hogeschool Polytechnic University.

The information service of the Royal House has confirmed Princess Amalia’s decision on public television this week; qualify as fully “personal”. It should be recalled that this is not the first time in recent months that the ASC/AVSV association has been involved in a scandal in the Netherlands. Last year he already lost the subsidy he received annually from the rectorate to be able to carry out his duties. The reason for this decision at the time was due to the enormous levels of violence the new students were subjected to during the famous hazing.

In the famous biography of Princess Amalia that Claudia de Breij published last year, the Dutch writer stated that the young heir to the throne “wanted to belong to a student association and live in a house with other students”; a dream that the future queen of the Netherlands can only half fulfill for the time being.