Prince Joachim of Belgium


Prince Joachim of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este, is the younger son and third child of Lorenz, Archduke of Austria-Este and Princess Astrid of Belgium.

Life

Family

Prince Joachim was born on 9 December 1991 at the Saint -Luc University Hospital in Woluwe-St-Lambert, Belgium, and he is currently tenth in line to the Belgian throne. He is the first female-line member of the Belgian Royal Family to be born a Prince of Belgium, with succession rights to the throne. His older brother and sister were created Prince and Princess of Belgium in December 1991, several years after their birth.

Education

He attended Malvern College in Worcestershire, England, in 2010.
He enlisted in a voluntary army training course at the Centre for Basic Training in Arlon, Belgium, on 16 November 2010. On 29 July 2011, he also finished his education at the Nautical School in Brugge to become an officer in the Belgian Navy.
He studied for a "Bachelor of International Economics, Management and Finance" from September 2011 at Bocconi University in Milan.

Contraction of COVID-19

In May 2020, amid the large-scale outbreak of COVID-19, it was officially announced that Prince Joachim had tested positive for the infectious disease, which is caused by a coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. Prince Joachim broke the lockdown to attend the birthday party of his Spanish girlfriend in Córdoba, Spain.

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