Princess Isabella
Free at last? In boarding school she will get to know a different life
Princess Isabella
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After Denmark’s Prince Christian had already decided in 2021 to continue his education at the Herlufsholm boarding school, his younger sister Princess Isabella will follow him this year. In just a few months she will begin her new life away from her parents and the royal family – and will be confronted with completely new challenges there.
From late summer 2022, Princess Isabella, 14, and her parents Prince Frederik, 53, and Princess Mary, 50, will be separated by around an hour and a half by car. The young girl fledges and leaves the native nest. A step towards independence, which probably inspires the student’s fantasies of freedom these days. But how liberal is it really at the boarding school of your choice?
Princess Isabella: In August she will leave her native nest
“In the coming school year, Her Royal Highness Princess Isabella wishes to continue her schooling at Herlufsholm in Næstved, where His Royal Highness Prince Christian attends secondary school,” the royal court said in a press release on March 28, 2022. “The princess is enrolled in the boarding school and will be in the 9th grade.”
The deadline is August 8th, 2022. On this day the new school year begins on Herlufsholm – and for Isabella a new phase of life. This actually brings more freedom for the soon to be 15-year-old, which should appeal to her in her urge for independence. Isabella is considered a little tomboy and has been spotted several times without her family in the stands of Copenhagen’s Parken football stadium to cheer on the Danish team, according to Se og Hør magazine. She is also said to have appeared without a royal entourage at the opening of the new flagship store of an e-bike brand.
Shared rooms and uniform clothing
But there are some things that the princess may not like at all in her new living environment. It’s quite a change to swap your teenage bedroom at home in Frederik VIII’s palace at Amalienborg Palace for a dormitory with at least a handful of giggling classmates.
The whole family accompanies her on the red carpet
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And even with the application of mum’s beautiful fashion is soon over: on Herlufsholm school uniforms are popular, which the students have to wash regularly, according to “Billed Bladet”. Even underwear is regulated, writes “Se og Hør” – no color other than white is tolerated.
The boarding school is worth “gold”.
However, the many limitations come with a hefty price tag. A school year at the posh boarding school costs 157,000 Danish kroner, the equivalent of around 21,110 euros. With two children on Herlufsholm, the heir to the throne invests more than 40,000 euros a year in the education of their two eldest children.
Of course, there are other costs as well, such as the traditional ski trip, during which Prince Christian, 16, only covered himself in February not with fame, but allegedly with a lot of champagne.
After really hard times, the experience of the future heir to the Danish throne does not really sound like it. This will probably have convinced Isabella to follow him to Herlufsholm. And even if homesickness for her parents and her younger siblings, Princess Josephine and Prince Vincent, 11, threatens to overwhelm the teenager: she knows that there will always be a brotherly shoulder to lean on when you are abroad.
Sources used: seoghoer.dk, billedbladet.dk, teda.dk