BRUSSELS — Belgium’s Royal Palace mentioned Friday that Princess Elisabeth, who’s first in line to the throne, is ready to seek out out whether or not she will return to Harvard for her second 12 months after U.S. President Donald Trump introduced a ban on international college students on the college.
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked Harvard College’s capability to enroll worldwide college students in its escalating battle with the Ivy League faculty, saying 1000’s of scholars should switch to different faculties or go away the nation.
“We’re wanting into the state of affairs, to see what sort of impression this determination might need on the princess, or not. It’s too early to say proper now,” mentioned the palace’s communications head, Xavier Baert.
Baert mentioned that Princess Elisabeth, aged 23, has accomplished her first 12 months of a graduate faculty program at Harvard and would spend the summer season again in Belgium. “And we’ll must see what occurs subsequent 12 months,” he mentioned.
The princess is the primary of 4 kids born to King Philippe and Queen Mathilde, and has been learning for a Grasp in Public Coverage. Final 12 months, she obtained a level in historical past and politics at Lincoln School at Oxford within the U.Ok.
Harvard enrolls nearly 6,800 international college students at its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, accounting for greater than 1 / 4 of its scholar physique. Most are graduate college students, coming from greater than 100 nations.
The college filed a lawsuit on Friday in federal courtroom in Boston, saying that the Trump administration’s motion violates the First Modification and could have an “fast and devastating impact for Harvard and greater than 7,000 visa holders.”