Children’s Hospital, part of Ghent University Hospital in Ghent. She gave her first official speech in 2014 during commemorations of the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. Princess Elisabeth became godmother of a patrol vessel named Pollux P902 on 6 May 2015 in Zeebrugge. In June 2019, the Duchess of Brabant and her mother traveled to Kenya for the United Nations Children's Fund, where they visited the Kakuma refugee camp. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Princess Elisabeth had conversations over the phone with elderly people in residential care centers in order to encourage and support them. On 21 July 2021, she was among the fellow students of the Royal Military Academy Belgium to parade during the Belgian National Day. On 12 May 2022, Princess Elisabeth accompanied her aunt Princess Astrid on a visit to St Hilda's College. There, she and her aunt met St Hilda’s Principal Professor Dame Sarah Springman and Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford Professor Louise Richardson. On 17 June 2022, together with her mother the Queen, she was among the royal guests invited to the celebrations of the 18th birthday of Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway. She carried her two first solo official engagements in the following week by christening the Belgian oceanographic research vessel RV Belgica and inaugurating KU Leuven's Princess Elisabeth Additive Manufacturing Lab. Elisabeth volunteers to help children with learning difficulties, the elderly, the homeless and people with a handicap. Position Ten years prior to Elisabeth's birth, a new act of succession was put into effect which introduced absolute primogeniture, meaning that she comes first in the line of succession because she is the eldest child. On 21 July 2013, once Elisabeth's father had taken the oath of office as King of the Belgians (his father, King Albert II, having abdicated shortly before), she became heir apparent to the throne and as such bears the title of Duchess of Brabant. If she ascends to the throne as expected, she will be Belgium's first female monarch. Eponym Princess Elisabeth Antarctica (2009) Princess Elisabeth Children's Hospital (2011) Princess Elisabeth Park (2019) Microcostatus elisabethianus Athénée Royal Princesse Elisabeth Princess Elisabeth Additive Manufacturing Lab (2022) Titles, styles and honour 25 October 2001 – 21 July 2013: Her Royal Highness Princess Elisabeth of Belgium 21 July 2013 – present: Her Royal Highness Princess Elisabeth, The Duchess of Brabant Honour : Knight Grand Cordon of the Order