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Reigning Royal Families

Biographical entries of most of the reigning monarchs and of certain other members of the reigning royal families will be found in their appropriate alphabetical order in the biographical section of this site.

The name under which they can be found in the text of the site is listed and hyperlinked in this section in bold UPPERCASE type.


THE NETHERLANDS

Reigning Queen:

HM QUEEN BEATRIX WILHELMINA ARMGARD
b. 31 January 1938; succeeded to the throne 30 April 1980, on the abdication of her mother, Queen Juliana (now Princess Juliana); married 10 March 1966, Prince Claus George Willem Otto Frederik Geert Jonkheer van Amsberg (b. 6 September 1926, died 6 October 2002).

Children of the Queen:

Prince Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand, Prince of Orange (heir to the throne), b. 27 April 1967; married 2 February 2002, Máxima Zorreguieta (b. 17 May 1971); daughter, Princess Catharina-Amalia Beatrix Carmen Victoria, b. 7 December 2003; daughter, Princess Alexia Juliana Marcella Laurentien, b. 26 June 2005; daughter, Ariane Wilhelmina Máxima Ines, b. 10 April 2007.

Prince Johan Friso Bernhard Christiaan David, b. 25 September 1968; married 24 April 2004 (relinquished right to the throne and membership of the Royal House), Mabel Wisse Smit; daughter, Emma Luana Ninette Sophie, b. 26 March 2005.

Prince Constantijn Christof Frederik Aschwin, b. 11 October 1969; married 17 May 2001, Laurentien Brinkhorst (b. 25 May 1966); daughter, Princess Eloise Sophie Beatrix Laurence, b. 8 June 2002; son, Prince Claus-Casimir Bernhard Marius Max, b. 21 March 2004; daughter, Leonor Marie Irene Enrica, b. 3 June 2006.

Parents of the Queen:

Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld, b. 30 April 1909, died 30 March 2004; married 7 January 1937, Prince Bernhard Leopold Frederik Everhard Julius Coert Karel Godfried Pieter of the Netherlands, Prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld (b. 29 June 1911, died 1 December 2004).

Sisters of the Queen:

Princess Irene Emma Elisabeth, b. 5 August 1939; married 29 April 1964, Prince Carlos Hugo of Bourbon Parma (divorced 1981); son, Prince Carlos Javier Bernardo, b. 27 January 1970; son, Prince Jaime Bernardo, b. 13 October 1972; daughter, Princess Margarita Maria Beatriz, b. 13 October 1972; daughter, Princess Maria Carolina Christina, b. 23 June 1974.

Princess Margriet Francisca, b. 19 January 1943; married 10 January 1967, Pieter van Vollenhoven; son, Prince Maurits Willem Pieter Hendrik, b. 17 April 1968; son, Prince Bernhard Lucas Emmanuel, b. 25 December 1969; son, Prince Pieter-Christiaan Michiel, b. 22 March 1972; son, Prince Floris Frederik Martÿn, b. 10 April 1975.

Princess Maria Christina, b. 18 February 1947; married 28 June 1975, Prince Jorge Guillermo (divorced 1996); son, Prince Bernardo Federico Tomás, b. 17 June 1977; son, Nicolas Daniel Mauricio, b. 6 July 1979; daughter, Princess Juliana Edenia Antonia, b. 8 October 1981.



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