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Princesses and queens were traditionally the way that dynasties found to perpetuate themselves in new princesses and princes, just as the hen is the strategy that nature has found to make another egg;

but, because of the

many princesses -not even their descendants- were able to reign.

Putting an end to discrimination against women in monarchical succession has not been an easy task.

In fact, in

despite the fact that there is broad consensus, the imbroglio of the procedure has so far dissuaded governments from opening that melon and belling the cat.

In the other kingdoms, the situation has changed with new succession laws that, unlike Japan and Spain, have put an end to a form of unacceptable constitutional sexism.

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After the death of Elizabeth II, Margaret of Denmark is the only female throne holder, but in the near future European monarchies will be a place for women.

As the century progresses,

This repóquer of heiresses has more than one element in common for their education, for their outfits and for the air they breathe.

With the exception of Victoria from Sweden, 45, they are all around the same age:

turned 18 in January,

will turn 19 in December,

has just turned 21 and

will reach 17 to 31 October.

Swedish victory

The eldest of the club has been playing in another league for a long time.

She is the daughter of Carl XVI Gustaf and Silvia of Sweden, when she was born the Salic Law was in force, which prevented Victoria from ascending the throne because she was a woman.

After pressure from feminist groups, the Constitution was reformed and Victoria became heir.

She will be the

Princess Victoria of Sweden.Gtres

In his teens he traveled to the United States and Germany to improve his English and German.

He later studied for a year at the Catholic University of Angers, France, and recognized that he suffered from anorexia.

She finally got over it and went to the United States to study Political Science and History at Yale.

She completed her studies in conflict resolution and peacebuilding and

On her return to Sweden, she did the military.

Victoria has her own family and numerous official activities.

She got married in 2010 with

her personal trainer, who had helped her overcome anorexia, and Estela, ten years old, and Oscar, seven, were born.

At the moment, there is already a member of the next generation of heiresses of heiresses.

At her wedding, Victoria turned to Swedish designer Pär Engsheden for her Duchess silk gown in ivory.

With a bardot neckline and a three-foot train, she paired the dazzling design with the

which belonged to Josephine de Beauharnais, Napoleon's first wife.

It was the perfect ostentatious complement to a luxurious and refined dress.

Victoria's style is a story of two halves.

When she attends royal galas and soirees, Victoria resorts to voluminous gowns in brightly colored silks.

When she visits charities, she is an advocate of

as daywear.

Whether velvet, plaid, belted, or boldly colored, she Victoria knows how to dazzle in outfits paired with decadent heeled boots.

Elizabeth of Belgium

In 1991 the Salic Law was abolished in Belgium and Princess Elisabeth became heir to the throne and Duchess of Brabant.

She will be the

until now the throne was only a matter of men.

She grew up with her siblings in Laeken Castle, the official residence of the King of the Belgians.

At age nine, she gave her first speech at the opening of the children's hospital named after her in Ghent.

At thirteen, she christened her first boat.

Upon reaching the age of majority, he was entitled to an allowance of 2,500 euros per day, but that entailed obligations in official activities, having his own home and collaborators and supporting an official agenda that justified the expenses.

Her parents preferred to relieve her of that burden and send her to study two years of international baccalaureate at the

(near Cardiff and the same center where princesses Leonor of Spain and Alexia of the Netherlands study).

Princess Elisabeth of Belgium.Getty

In 2020, the princess became a student at the Royal Military Academy in Brussels.

She now studies History and Politics at

She lives in a dorm, walks around campus, has coffee with her classmates, does her homework in the library, and dresses casually.

The Royal House describes her as a 'creative young woman who enjoys drawing and reading'.

She plays the piano, she moves like a swan in ballet classes and she loves

Besides being fluent in Chinese, she is bilingual in French, German, English and Flemish.

Her grandmother, Queen Paola, was an icon of Haute Couture in the 1960s, and she seems to aspire to the same.

She is a style star,

and has inherited her mother Matilda of Belgium's fondness for her bright colors.

She often wears Belgian designer outfits, belted coats for formal events, with subtle jewelery and matching accessories.

Amalia from Netherlands

Amalia de Orange will turn 19 in December and is probably the most mediatic of all.

When she succeeds her father, she will become the

behind her great-great-grandmother Guillermina, her great-grandmother Juliana and her grandmother Beatriz.

She likes to sing, hockey, horseback riding and is a nerd.

She studied high school at a public institute, the Gymnasium Sorghvliet in The Hague, where her family lives in the newly renovated Huis Ten Bosch palace.

and amazed customers to see the future queen collecting orders from table to table.

Since he turned 18, he has

that is, a million and a half a year.

She can use 263,000 euros for her things, the rest goes on representation, security and office expenses.

Even so, in the Dutch Parliament they raised voices that saw the assignment as excessive because she, dedicated to studying, her official appearances are sporadic.

Amalia from the Netherlands.Getty

She has started an interdisciplinary degree including

at the University of Amsterdam.

Because of her mother's Buenos Aires roots, she speaks Spanish at home.

She also studies Latin and Mandarin Chinese.

Under the alias

, she has her private Instagram profile where she shares photos that reveal her love of nature: a beach in Greece, a river in South Africa, a whale, a hedgehog, a cheetah or a snake.

Her philosophical side is expressed with teenage lyricism: 'If you want to fly, abandon what makes you fall' or 'I think the sky is the beginning of the limit'.

From her family portrait for which she wore a yellow Zimmerman dress, to Sandro's dresses - which she regularly favors and wears with Gianvito Rossi sandals - the princess is a master of

like her sisters Alexia and Ariane.

Last month, at the Council of State gala dinner at Palais Noordeinde in The Hague, she opted for a Mac Duggal A-line surplice gown in slate blue and sequins.

Ingrid from Norway

In 1990, the same year that the Salic Law was abolished in Norway,

The crush was overwhelming and they went to live together without a wedding in between, which raised blisters because the future king, and head of the Church, ignored the traditions.

The beautiful commoner and the crown prince were married in 2001 and her daughter Ingrid Alexandra was the first Norwegian princess with the right to promotion.

Previously, only Queen Margaret I, who ruled 600 years ago, held the title.

Ingrid will be 19 years old in January and

of the heiresses club despite the fact that, as a descendant of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, she is in the line of succession to the British throne.

The princess was

for her primary studies.

She was transferred to the private Oslo International School and she raised such a storm of criticism that she returned to a public school, the Uranienborg Skole, in the most posh area of ​​Oslo, very close to the Royal Palace.

Ingrid from Norway.Getty

Like her four fellow heiresses, Ingrid belongs to her status as much as to the air of the time of Generation Z, and is therefore

She has photographic talent and enjoys soccer, skiing, kickboxing, and surfing as much as playing the piano.

In the summer of 2019 I saw her on vacation in Formentera, she was sailing in a boat, surfing and walking around the island in a Mehari.

At her 18th birthday celebrations at Oslo's Deichman Library, she wore a

strapless ivory and polka dot

She accessorized it with nude Christian Louboutin stilettos and a dainty vintage gold sequin bag.

Her hair was slicked back in a ponytail and her shawl with white lace trim and delicate gold and crystal earrings completed her ethereal look.

It was a very special day, of course, she usually brings a contemporary touch to royal protocols by combining her coats or dresses with simple white sneakers, often by

a favorite firm in Hollywood and a graduate of the University of Saint Martins, with a hairpin of prices between 100 and 400 euros.

Eleanor from Spain

At just 17 years old, Princess Leonor de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Ortiz is the

She rides horses, skis and enjoys music.

She is responsible, observant and very applied, when the princess of Asturias -and of Gerona and Viana- ascends the throne she will be the first titular queen in Spain since 1868.

But Leonor has only a first name among her classmates at the UWC Atlantic College in Wales.

Such is her life.

As well as being heir to the throne from her father, she has inherited her mother's familiarity with style, which offers hints of more daring choices to come.

Like Queen Letizia, she likes simple outfits and dresses and she prefers garments from local brands: Miphai, Cherubina, Laura Bernal and & Me Unlimited are some of the chosen ones.

The Princess of Asturias at the Princess of Girona Awards.Getty

Her first solo outing, in Madrid on March 24, 2021, offered her an unlikely opportunity to illustrate what's to come in a print dress and simple little heels.

Last summer, in Mallorca, she went out to dinner with her family at Palma's Beatbik restaurant and broke the bank in a flowy cobalt blue and white printed shirt minidress complete with white platform espadrilles.

I hurriedly looked it up online, it was part of Zara's Spring/Summer 2022 collection and it cost 35 euros.

In general, Leonor

It seems that

because Queen Letizia's daughters share her taste in clothing.

Last summer, before going on vacation to the Balearic Islands, the Queen, at a work meeting at Unicef ​​headquarters in Madrid, wore a dress that she had not worn before, but it was not new: Leonor had worn it for the first time a month before in the theaters of the Canal de Madrid.

It was a piece from the Spanish firm Dándara, a shirt with a white background and a geometric print in red and green.

Initially, it cost 59.99 euros, but it was already reduced to 39.99 when the princess dressed it.

Both combined it with esparto wedges.

Generation Z Tiktokers

All of these princesses-to-be-queens are postmillennials, Generation Z tiktokers, all have been shaped by change and uncertainty, and

Silvia from Sweden was a stewardess;

Mette Marit from Norway, graduated in Ethics;

Argentina's Máxima from the Netherlands, a banking executive in New York;

Matilde from Belgium, psychologist and speech therapist;

Queen Letizia, journalist.

In addition, the parents of the five heiresses reign in their States;

Instead, the only European queen, Margaret of Denmark, has a male heir, Prince Frederick.

With heiresses like these, monarchies are going to be a trend, at the moment these princesses are trendy.

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