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Belgium’s future queen caught up in Harvard foreign student ban

www.theguardian.com Belgium’s future queen caught up in Harvard foreign student ban

Princess Elisabeth has completed first year of master’s degree but Trump administration’s crackdown may jeopardise studies

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.

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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.
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.
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.
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
Of all the people suffering from Trump's deranged actions, European royalty are probably not the most deserving of pity.
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
what a toxic piece of shit, he is like the most obnoxious type of kid who screams, flails arms and legs when he loses a game and gets confronted about his shitty behaviour. except he is also the president of the US
Why does he have the power to ban people from going to a private university?
Why do we care about whether a princess can study in another country? Fuck princesses, they're nepo baby billionaires plus a "divine right" to oppress people.
Honestly. If a couple bourgeoisie take some strays for Trump's awful policies I'm not gonna shed a tear. Who the fuck cares about a Belgium queen? I care about the working class kid that isn't gonna graduate. Fuck the Queen.
It does raise the question of why her royal highness could not deign to attend a Belgian university in the first place lol
On the one hand I wish anything bad that's possible on anyone who's royalty. On the other hand this might shine a light on Trumps bullshit in a way that even his supporters might start questioning.
If I were studying in the Untied States, I'd be afraid to stay there anyway
Oh no! So anyway…
Future queen I guess means she is a princess. Just say that. I did not know Belgium still has vestiges of monarchy. That does put a damper on the judgment from Europe over the U.S. having Trump. Also can't forget Leopold. Fuck that guy
We finally found an immigrant that deserves to be sent to a prison in El Salvador. Other than Musk, that is.
I'm just glad we are keeping these thugs and criminals out of Harvard, it was clearly a huge problem.
A relative of King Leopold II, the number 4 ranked mass murderer. Look up Belgian Congo and that monarchy should have been torn down.

However, Krasnov's revoking international students that apply to Harvard is plain stupid and very fascist/communist move.
Either not white enough for trump or hasn't payed the orange shitnozzle enough homage.

Coin toss but odds are on not enough $$
I guess something good came out of a really really shitty thing then.

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