The princess of Belgium will return to Harvard after a summer of uncertainty for international students due to tensions between school and the Trump administration.
Princess Elisabeth will enter her second year at the Ivy League Institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, confirmed a spokesman for the Belgian Royal Palace.
“He is happy to continue his mastery and that he can return to the campus,” said the 23 -year -old heir spokesman to the Belgian throne.
Elisabeth, the Duchess of Babant, is in the middle of a two -year public policy program at the Kennedy Government School in Harvard, which will begin her first week of classes in early September.
Earlier this year, it was not clear if the Trump administration immigration policies would affect the princess. In May, the Government had finished the certification of the student and exchange of school visitors program, which would effectively block the school’s ability to enroll international students.
At that time, the Belgian royal palace said it would allow time to “let things settle” before providing more details about the registration of the princess.
Harvard accused the Administration in a demand to violate its first amendment rights and won a temporary restriction order of a federal judge, allowing him to keep his international students and register new.
But at the beginning of June, the Trump administration made another attempt to prevent the university from registering in foreign academics, issuing a proclamation that said that the Government would deny visas to those who try to come to the United States in order to study there.
Harvard immediately fought against the decision.
“This is another illegal retaliation step given by the administration in violation of the rights of the first Harvard amendment,” said a University spokesman at that time.
The University modified its May claim and asked the Court to stop the application of the proclamation, which the federal judge quickly granted.
Princess Elisabeth is among the large international population of the Harvard Kennedy school, which constitutes 59% of her student body. He did his undergraduate studies at Lincoln College, part of the largest oxford University in the United Kingdom, where he obtained a degree in History and Politics.
