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NOS News•today, 22:25
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Crown Princess Amalia decided Today not to become a member of the Amsterdam student corps ASC/AVSV this academic year. In doing so, she is breaking with a long-standing tradition. Her father Willem-Alexander, grandmother Beatrix and great-grandmother Juliana were all members of a student association, just like many other Oranges.
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Royal House reporter Jozephine Trehy finds the decision striking. She cites the book that comedian Claudia de Breij wrote about Amalia last year. In it, the crown princess said that she was very excited to join a student association.
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The fact that she is waiving membership for the time being is “very special”, according to constitutional law expert Peter Rehwinkel. According to Rehwinkel, the crown princess is taking a step that her father, the king, actually wanted to take.
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Rehwinkel: “Her father did not want to study in Leiden, nor did he want to join a student association. In the end he did both. The crown princess is going to study in Amsterdam and not at a student association. So she is actually doing what her father intended.”
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To differ
With her decision to study in Amsterdam, Amalia also deviates from what is usual for heirs to the throne. They usually study at Leiden University: the Oranges have been associated with it since 1575. In that year the university was founded.
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Princess Beatrix was also a member of the Association of Female Students. Below are photos from that time:
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Princess Beatrix on horseback at the celebration of the twelfth anniversary of the Association of Female Students (1960) –
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The princesses Beatrix and Margriet, present at the thirteenth lustrum celebration (1965) –
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Beatrix studied law and sociology at Leiden University. She expanded her range of subjects to include constitutional law and economics. She obtained the title of doctorandus after she passed her master’s exam with an 8.5.
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When Willem-Alexander studied, he lived in a student house on the Rapenburg with three roommates. He graduated in six years. Willem-Alexander found the discipline involved in studying difficult, he admitted: “If you are not there three times, you already have a 1 for attendance and that figure determines your final grade for 20 or 25 percent.”
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The thesis of the then crown prince, for which he received an 8, was about the Dutch reaction to the position of French General De Gaulle on NATO. According to his supervisor Henk Wesseling, Willem-Alexander was “intelligent, but not intellectual”.
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The prince is thrown into the water for his initiation, at the Dijk en Burg campsite in Noordwijkerhout (1987) –
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Marc de haan / Dutch height
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Willem Alexander (left) at the KMT Minerva raprace (1991), a race across the Rapenburg as part of the hazing of freshmen –
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Amalia’s predecessors did join an association. King Willem-Alexander, for example, was a member of the Leiden Student Association Minerva. Princess Juliana was a member of the Association of Female Students, which later became part of Minerva.
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The Amsterdam student corps, of which Amalia wanted to become a member, recently became heavily discredited by sexist statements by members at a private party. Images of it leaked out.
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That is an environment where a future queen of the Netherlands should not want to be at the moment.
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According to Rehwinkel, the fact that Amalia is now canceling membership shows that her “social antenna” is working well. Still, the decision not to join was probably not just Amalia’s, says Rehwinkel. He said her parents were involved.
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“That riot is from a few weeks ago. Women were called whores and semen buckets during a party. That is an environment where a future queen of the Netherlands should not want to be at the moment.”
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A wrong choice at the moment could cause damage to the image, which Amalia can suffer from for a long time. Her father also experienced this, says Rehwinkel. Willem-Alexander’s student days were anything but quiet.
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Willem-Alexander’s love life and drinking habits were widely reported in the tabloids. He was also nicknamed ‘Prince Pils’, much to his own dismay. It was also openly doubted whether he would be fit to become king later on.
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Not now, later?
Rehwinkel does not rule out the possibility that Amalia will still join the corps in the future. Trehy also thinks that Amalia could later become a member of the association. “The only thing the Government Information Service says is that the princess will not become a member now. That could mean that she will become a member next year or the year after, for example, but that is not clear for now.”
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