Princess Laetitia of Belgium continues her travels around the world, and in particular in Latin America. The youngest daughter of Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz is going to study for a few months at a university in Argentina, as part of an exchange program with her English university. This great journalist in the making has already had a few humanitarian experiences in Brazil.
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Will the niece of the King of the Belgians become a great journalist?
Princess Laetitia Maria of Belgium, who celebrated her 20th birthday this year, already has a CV full of experience. Like Beatrice Borromeo and many royalty, it is journalism that fascinates the young Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia, and Princess of Modena. His sister-in-law, Elisabetta, wife of Prince Amedeo, is a journalist, as is his great-aunt, Princess Esmeralda, and of course as was her namesake, Queen Letizia.
Princess Laetitia, 12th in line to the Belgian throne, attended secondary school at Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, where she had her first contact with journalism by writing articles for the school magazine, Two Zero One. The last of Princess Astrid’s five children, for example, signed a tribute article to the famous American judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “I was often questioned by older people who said I was ‘too inexperienced’ or ‘too idealistic’, which infuriated me as I was desperate to bring to light issues that are still shunned in our society. “, explained the engaged princess in her article written for the newspaper of her school.
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At the start of the 2021 school year, Princess Laetitia began her studies in history at the Faculty of Arts at University College London (UCL). Journalism greatly motivates the young princess, who also has many questions about the profession. “How to be politically correct these days? », she asked Kevin Maguire, associate editor at the DailyMirrorduring an interview filmed as part of a school project. “I find it can be quite difficult. I feel restricted. I want to give my opinion while not hurting anyone and being respectful and correct”.
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After her teaching project in the favelas of São Paulo, Princess Letizia leaves to study in Buenos Aires
During the summer of 2022, the cousin of Princess Elisabeth of Belgium, future Queen of the Belgians, traveled to Brazil. She carried out the Pipa Project of which she is one of the co-founders. The project aims to provide basic education to children in the favelas of São Paulo. The project lasted almost a year, then she did an internship just before the summer in London, within the media group Conde Nast. It is with the editorial staff of the prestigious magazine Tatler that she found a place as an intern and where she was able to sign two articles. The first article she wrote is a tribute to the career of photographer Slim Aarons and the second is dedicated to the fashion of the brand’s Venetian slippers. Furlane which have replaced the fashion for traditional ballerinas.
Laetitia is now resuming her studies at the London university, where she left off, except that she will begin her academic year with an exchange program that will send her to Argentina. According to the German magazine Bunte, she will study “for at least one year” at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires.
Nicholas Fontaine
Chief Editor
Nicolas Fontaine has been a freelance web editor since 2014. After having been a copywriter and author for numerous Belgian and French brands and media, he specialized in royalty news. Nicolas is now editor-in-chief of Histoires royales. [email protected]
