![]() ![]() Royal Dutch controversyĪmsterdam’s Jewish population protested against using the city as the site for the 1966 marriage ceremony of Beatrix to Claus. ![]() The first time she used her mobile she interrupted Friso in the middle of a meeting, and she apparently did not like to use her phone very much after this. At one point she was given a phone with pre-programmed numbers for her three sons: one for Willem-Alexander, one for Friso and one for Constantijn. In 2008 Beatrix still had never used a computer, and she didn’t like mobile phones. In order to avoid Canadian citizenship, the room in which Margriet was born was officially declared to be outside of Canadian jurisdiction. This way she could return to the Netherlands with only Dutch citizenship.īeatrix was never a big fan of technology Beatrix’s sister Margriet was born in Canada in 1943. Queen Wilhelmina (Beatrix’s grandmother), Queen Juliana, Prince Bernard and Princess Beatrix fled to Canada via the United Kingdom where they resided for the duration of the war. Two and a half years after Beatrix was born, the Germans invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940. The Dutch royal family went to great lengths to avoid that Beatrix’ sister Margriet would have double citizenship. ![]() Beatrix never claimed her British citizenship and never acquired a British passport, but she was still 942nd in line to the British throne. According to the Sophia Naturalisation Act from 1705, all of Princess Sophia’s direct descendants automatically become British. Beatrix was born British and Dutchīeatrix is a straight descendant of Sophia van de Palts. She is the oldest child of Queen Juliana der Nederlanden and Prince Bernhard van Lippe-Biesterfeld, and, since 2002, widow of Prince Claus der Nederlanden. Beatrix has three first names and her full name is: Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, Prinses der Nederlanden, Prinses van Oranje-Nassau, Prinses van Lippe-Biesterfeld.īorn in Baarn on January 31, 1938, Beatrix was Queen of the Netherlands from Apuntil April 30, 2013. After abdicating the throne to her son Willem-Alexander, her official title is Princess but many still refer to her as Queen. Beatrix was the Dutch Queen from 1980 until 2013. ![]()
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