Princess Alexia of the Netherlands Is Headed to College in London! All About Her Academic Plans

King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima's daughter previously studied in the U.K.

Princess Alexia of the Netherlands is continuing her education in Great Britain.

The Royal House of the Netherlands has announced that King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima's 19-year-old daughter is enrolling at University College London this fall.

"Her Royal Highness Princess Alexia of the Netherlands will start a bachelor's degree in Science and Engineering for Social Change at the Faculty of Engineering, University College London (UCL) at the end of September," the royal house said in a statement on Aug. 8.

The court added that Princess Alexia's time at college is "considered to be private."

Princess Alexia is second in the line of succession to the Dutch throne, following her elder sister Princess Catharina-Amalia, 20, and ahead of her younger sister, Princess Ariane, 17.

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The update comes after Alexia graduated from the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales in the summer of 2023, where one of her classmates was Princess Leonor of Spain. Both princesses matriculated in the two-year course for International Baccalaureates, and Princess Alexia followed in the footsteps of her father the King by studying at the historic college nicknamed "Hippie Hogwarts." UWC Wales is known for its royal clientele, and Princess Elisabeth of Belgium and Princess Raiyah of Jordan are also grads (and there is even a castle on campus!).

Princess Alexia is heading to University College London after taking a gap year, and said in June that she was "a bit stressed about choosing" a university and program of study, the NL Times reported. According to the outlet, the royal made the revelation at the press conference that accompanied a summer photo session.

During her gap year, Princess Alexia marked an exciting royal milestone: her first solo engagement. In September 2023, the princess christened the Vox Alexia hopper dredger ship in Rotterdam, and had another royal first a few days later when she debuted her Order of the Lion of the Netherlands, the country's oldest and highest order of civilian chivalry, at the state opening of Parliament.

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As Princess Alexia looks ahead to attending University College London, back in the spring, her sister Princess Catharina-Amalia reflected on the "strange circumstances" of having to secretly switch schools in 2022 due to security threats.

In April, the heir to the throne said she was "grateful" to have found refuge in Spain after safety concerns prevented her from continuing to live in student housing in Amsterdam.

That month, it emerged that Princess Catharina-Amalia quietly studied in Madrid for a time due to threats made in the fall of 2022 while she was a student at the University of Amsterdam. The BBC reported that organized crime communications hinted the princess may have been a target for kidnapping or an attack, initially prompting her to move home and only leave for class. After her under-the-radar stay in Spain, the future queen was reportedly later able to resume her studies in the Netherlands.

"Of course, it was strange circumstances that made me go there," Princess Catharina-Amalia later reflected to the press, according to Bild. "I'm still very grateful to everyone who made it possible for me to walk around there in freedom. I managed to find a little more freedom there than was possible here."

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"The Netherlands is my home, so it's nice to be here again," she said, mentioning that her stay in Spain "made life here somewhat possible again."

Princess Catharina-Amalia's royal bio outlines that she is "currently focusing on her university studies," and she and Princess Alexia recently joined their parents at the Paris Olympics.

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