Fuck off! She's rich AF, who's really suffering is the bright and poor immigrant that got this one chance to have a good education
this post was submitted on 24 May 2025
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It's less that it's bad for her and more that it's another way the US is dismantling their own soft power. There are long term advantages to having the rich and powerful from around the world get their upper education in your universities.
Yeah this isn't newsworthy because she's rich, tbh there's probably richer immigrant students at Harvard we don't know about. But diplomatically this is a pretty big deal. This lady is gonna grow up to wield substantial political influence in her country, and she likely won't have warm feelings towards America as a result of this.
If I were studying in the Untied States, I'd be afraid to stay there anyway
I'm just glad we are keeping these thugs and criminals out of Harvard, it was clearly a huge problem.
It does raise the question of why her royal highness could not deign to attend a Belgian university in the first place lol
Considering her future job as queen will involve a lot of diplomatic and ceremonial functions it does kind of make sense to me that you'd want her to gain some international experience.
Also on a personal level i'd imagine it is much easier to have some resemblance of a private life in a foreign country, especially at a prestigious institution where plenty of others share notable backgrounds, compared to going to a local university where everyone knows who you are. In a small country like Belgium you probably don't even have much choices as to which university even offers a good program in your chosen field.
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Elisabeth initially studied at St John Berchmans College in Marollen, Brussels from September 2004 until August 2018. This marked a significant change in Belgian royal tradition, being the first time that a future Belgian monarch's education has begun in Dutch
In May 2020, the Belgian Royal Court announced that Elisabeth would undertake military training. On 31 August 2020, Elisabeth entered the Royal Military Academy in Brussels, studying social and military sciences
Really seems like the worst candidate to make this accuse against
Elisabeth initially studied at St John Berchmans College in Marollen, Brussels from September 2004 until August 2018.
Something is off here. Ok, apparently the St John Berchmans College is a secondary school, but still I guess it should say 2014. Surely she didn't start school when three yeard old.
(Not opposing your original point, this just caught my eye.)
I'd imagine that "school" in that context is used more broadly and encompases stuff like kindergarten.
A look at their website shows that they seem to also have a preschool and elementary school. It even currently says that you can enroll your kids born 2023 now "even if they don't start in 2026", which implies that starting 3 seems to indeed be a reasonable time to join their preschool program.
Because the rich go to university primarily to network.
correct answer
Because going to another country where she'll learn to deal with another cultures is important and will be a huge part of her future. You raise a question when the answer should be easily understood.
I'm sure this will work wonders for American soft power on the world stage.
Having a literal fucking queen with fond memories of America from her youth is political influence that money cannot buy. What an idiotic fumble.
What soft power? We pissed that all away months ago.
Fuck! I'm living in the past.
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Belgian chiming in, people here really have* developed a strong distaste for the US. I'd say 90% of people I know don't care at all for the monarchy, but this is blasted in the news as an example no one is safe from USA's shenanigans.
Professors and Universities are condemning this, it's such a major step in the wrong direction once again.
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If the Trump admin wasn't obviously a fascist dictatorship I might be able to feel good about Belgian royalty being treated the same as anyone else. However, this has nothing to do with traditional American values of an even playing field, because the Trump admin just refuses to recognize any royalty except Trump.
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.
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Someone told me this whole attack on Harvard is all because Harvard rejected Baron trump and while I haven’t looked into it that would make so much sense
I’ve looked into it, there really is not any indication Barron ever applied to Harvard, he is going to the same business school as his brothers and father, the likelyhood he applied anywhere else is low. The attack on Harvard can be recontextualized as a big liberal name in a big liberal state going against what he wants.
It's retaliation for this: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-trump-funding-antisemitism-columbia-b2733306.html So Harvard isn't the only target, but they're the ones that dared to publicly stand up against the bully and now the bully wants to make an example out of them. It's basically a repeat of Ron Desantis war on higher education, but now on a national scale.
Here's an overview of how other universities are faring: https://www.yahoo.com/news/tracking-trumps-war-on-elite-universities-which-schools-have-lost-funding-and-what-theyre-doing-about-it-200621655.html?guccounter=1
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