Thursday, August 14, 2014

Three Generations

Photo: Information und Kommunikation der Regierung
We already talked about the interview rate of the Princely Family yesterday and today there is another one though it actually is a little special as it was jointly given by the Prince Hans-Adam, who is celebrating his 25th throne jubilee this year, the Hereditary Prince Alois, who is celebrating his 10th anniversary as regent this year, and his oldest son Prince Wenzel, who is probably also celebrating something this year, if nothing else, his graduation from school. 

In the interview to the new magazine "oho", which is available here and even features very short English summaries, the Principality's past, present and future rulers talk about all kinds of stuff like politics and the future of Liechtenstein. Most interesting question for royal watchers probably is the one on how to raise an heir to the throne to which Hereditary Prince Alois replies, "Apart from the regular education that every parent tries to give their children, I tell my son about my daily work as the acting head of state and try to give him advise on how to best prepare for it. That also includes advise on which subjects to chose in school as well as which internships, course of studies at university and which work experiences would be most helpful."

9 comments:

  1. He did, he and mainly his sister are some of those royal children which, when I see them, I notice for how long I have been followig royalty. (And yes, I know that makes me sound terribly old even though I'm not.)

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  2. Fascinating. I had no idea melodies were repeated.

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  3. I wonder if Wenzel will follow his father and pursue study in Austria as well as serve in some sort of military service

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  4. It will probably depend on what he will study. If he goes for business administration or something along those lines, he is pretty free to go to university where he pleases. However, if he wants to study law, he will probably either have to do so in Austria or Switzerland. Liechtenstein's civil code is largely based on the Austrian one and the administrative and other laws on Swiss laws. Hereditary Prince Alois has said in interviews that there were thus only two countries in the world where studying law made sense for him.

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  5. Does this interviews online?

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  6. The link to the interview is given in the article above.

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  7. Then, does not it know where and what the prince will study at university yet?

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  8. We have always maintained the policy not to reveal the location of schools and universities of those covered on this blog unless it is done so by the Luxembourg or Liechtenstein courts themselves.

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