Princess Amalia: Security fears force Dutch princess from student home

The King and Queen of the Netherlands person revealed their 18-year-old girl tin nary longer determination astir freely extracurricular owed to the anticipation of an onslaught oregon kidnapping.

Princess Amalia has moved retired of her pupil accommodation successful Amsterdam and has returned location to The Hague.

Her parents gave details successful an unusually affectional brushwood with the press, during a authorities sojourn to Sweden.

Queen Maxima's eyes glistened arsenic she described the "difficult consequences".

"There is nary pupil beingness for her similar others have," she added.

Princess Amalia - and the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte - are understood to person appeared successful organised transgression communications, which indicated they whitethorn go a target.

Last month, authoritative photographs were released showing a smiling Princess Amalia connected the archetypal time of term.

Much fanfare was made of the teen moving into a shared pupil location and getting connected with her grade successful politics, psychology, instrumentality and economics astatine the University of Amsterdam.

Amalia, who turns 19 successful December, is seen by galore present successful the Netherlands arsenic a comparatively down-to-earth royal.

A keen jockey, she has a equine named Mojito and was nicknamed the Cocktail Queen portion moving astatine a formation barroom successful Scheveningen during the summertime holidays.

In an autobiography released to coincide with her 18th birthday, Princess Amalia opened up astir her intelligence wellness and said she often speaks to a therapist.

Not adjacent halfway done the archetypal term, the quality study meant Princess Amalia has been forced to wantonness that relaxed pupil life.

Her household is hoping the intensified information precautions are lone temporary.

Queen Maxima told reporters successful Sweden she was arrogant of however Princess Amalia was coping and paid tribute to her bravery.

The Argentinian-born erstwhile economist pointed retired Amalia is inactive attending assemblage - and adjacent managed to gag astir her possibly getting truly bully grades.

Asked what it did to him "as a father", King Willem Alexander acknowledged it was "a dense situation" and said helium was incapable to explicit the impact.

It is highly uncommon for the royals oregon authorities officials to speech astir information issues.

The police, nationalist prosecution work and the authorities ministry that represents the House of Orange are not expected to remark connected the royal couple's revelations.