Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands

Princess Catharina-Amalia (2019)

Dutch royal family

SM King Willem-Alexander IM Queen Máxima HRH Crown Princess Catharina-Amalia HRH Princess Alexia HRH Princess Ariane HRH Princess Beatrix HRH Prince Constantijn HRH Princess Laurentien HRH Princess Margriet Pieter van Vollenhoven

Princess Catharina-Amalia Beatrix Carmen Victoria , Princess of Orange , Princess of the Netherlands , Princess of Orange-Nassau, (born  December 7, 2003 in The Hague ) is the eldest daughter of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and has been since April 30th In 2013, when the Princess of Orange became the Crown Princess of the Netherlands. Your salutation is Your Royal Highness .

Life

The princess, whose family name is Amalia , was born in 2003 as the first of three daughters of the Dutch Crown Prince couple Willem-Alexander and Máxima . On June 12, 2004, Catharina-Amalia was baptized by Carel ter Linden in the Grote Kerk in The Hague. Her godparents were her uncle Prince Constantijn of Orange-Nassau , Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden , Marc ter Haar, Herman Tjeenk Willink, Samantha van Welderen Baroness Rengers-Deane and her uncle Martín Zorreguieta (brother of Queen Máxima). She has two younger sisters, Princess Alexia (* 2005) and Princess Ariane (* 2007). From 2007 to 2015 she attended Bloemcampschool, a public primary school in Wassenaar , a suburb of The Hague. She has been attending the Christelijk Gymnasium Sorghvliet in The Hague since August 2015.

She became the Princess of Orange under Article 7 of the Royal Family Act with the abdication of her grandmother, Queen Beatrix , on April 30, 2013, as she has since been the eldest child of the King in first place on the Dutch throne . She is also (currently) number 816 in the British line of succession .

Catharina-Amalia is the first Crown Princess to officially bear the feminine form of the title van Oranje (not to be confused with the less exclusive van Oranje-Nassau ) in her own right. According to Article 27 of the Constitution of the Netherlands , the crown prince title "Prins van Oranje" ( Prince of Orange ) led until 1983 exclusively "the eldest of the king's sons, or other male descendants, who is the presumed heir of the crown". An heir to the throne was described as "the daughter of the king, who is the presumed heir to the crown". It was only when the constitution of the Netherlands was amended on February 17, 1983 that Article 25 prescribes the succession of the monarch's eldest child - regardless of gender. Previously, male descendants were preferred in line to the throne. On May 30, 2002, Queen Beatrix laid down a regulation on the titles of members of the royal family, including the introduction of the title of Prinses van Oranje .

Official duties

According to the constitution, she will become a member of the Dutch Council of State on her 18th birthday .

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Princess van Oranje

The coat of arms of the Crown Princess, the Princess van Oranje, shows the same shield contents as that of her two younger sisters, Princess Alexia and Princess Ariane, and the personal coat of arms of her mother Queen Máxima , and is also covered with the royal crown. It was already set by decree when the then future Crown Princess was born ; the royal decision was made on November 21, 2003. It was designed by Piet Bultsma, member of the Hoge Raad van Adel . In the first and fourth quarters it shows the lion of the royal Dutch national coat of arms and in the second and third quarters the hunting horn of the historical principality of Orange , from which the prince title van Oranje is derived. The golden heart shield is the emblem of the Zorreguieta family, the Queen Máxima paternal comes from: on corrugated blue sign foot a red castle with battlements and three towers between two uprooted green cypress trees whose trunks ever by a inturned current black wolf are covered. As a married woman, Queen Máxima has the coat of arms in an oval shield.

Orders and honors

Street name

Probably with the construction and redesign of the Ypenburg train station and its surroundings around 2005, one of the streets on the western outskirts of The Hague was named Prinses Catharina-Amaliastraat. The Amaliastraat, not far from the seat of government of the Dutch king , was not named after the Crown Princess, but probably after Amalia von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach , the first wife of Prince Heinrich of the Netherlands . In addition, the name was already represented in the House of Orange before her, with Amalie zu Solms-Braunfels , the wife of Friedrich Heinrich von Oranien .

ancestors

Pedigree of Crown Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands
Old parents	Wilhelm von Amsberg (1856–1929) ⚭ 1889 Elise von Vieregge (1866–1951)	Georg von dem Bussche- Haddenhausen (1869–1923) ⚭ 1896 Gabrielle Marie von dem Bussche-Ippenburg (1877–1973)	Prince Bernhard zur Lippe -Biesterfeld (1872–1934) ⚭ 1909 Armgard von Sierstorpff-Cramm (1883–1971)	Duke Heinrich of Mecklenburg (1876–1934) ⚭ 1901 Queen Wilhelmina (1880–1962)	Amadeo Zorreguieta Hernández (* 1856/1868) ⚭ Máxima Blanca Bonorino Halbach (1874–1965)	Oreste (s) Stefanini ⚭ Tullia Borella (* approx. 1876)	Santiago Anastasio Cerruti Ponce de León (1868 / 1872–1940) ⚭ María de las Mercedes (de) Sautu Martínez (1876 / 1877–1955)	Domingo Carricart Etchart (1885–1953) ⚭ Carmen Cieza Rodríguez
Great grandparents	Klaus Felix von Amsberg (1890–1953) ⚭ 1924 Gosta von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen (1902–1996)		Prince Bernhard zur Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911–2004) ⚭ 1937 Juliana (1909–2004), Queen of the Netherlands 1948–1980		Juan Antonio Zorreguieta Bonorino (1899–1959) ⚭ Cesira Maria Stefanini Borella (1901–1999)		Jorge Horacio Cerruti de Sautu (1911–1992) ⚭ 1942 María del Carmen Carricart Cieza (1914 / 5–1999)
Grandparents	Claus von Amsberg (1926–2002) ⚭ 1966 Beatrix (* 1938), Queen of the Netherlands 1980–2013				Jorge Horacio Zorreguieta Stefanini (1928–2017) ⚭ 1970 María del Carmen Cerruti Carricart (* 1944)
parents	Willem-Alexander (* 1967), King of the Netherlands since 2013 ⚭ 2002 Máxima, born Zorreguieta Cerruti (* 1971), named "Queen Máxima" since 2013 as the king's wife
Princess Catharina-Amalia van Oranje-Nassau (* 2003), as Princess van Oranje, Crown Princess of the Netherlands since 2013

Web links

Commons : Catharina-Amalia van Oranje  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Princess Catharina-Amalia on the website of the royal family

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Royal Decree of January 25, 2002: Official Announcement Staatsblad 2002 No. 41 (accessed on May 6, 2013)
2. ↑ Prinses Catharina-Amalia, Prinses van Oranje
3. ↑ Rijksoverheid: Koninklijk Huis -Hoe heten de kinderen van koning Willem-Alexander en Máxima koningin? (accessed on May 12, 2013)
4. ↑ Wet lidmaatschap koninklijk huis, geldend op 01-05-2013, Article 7: De vermoedelijke opvolger van de Koning draagt ​​de titel van Prins (Prinses) van Oranje.
5. ↑ Het Koninklijk Huis ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ See the information ( Memento of the original from August 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) 
7. ↑ Constitution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands of August 24, 1815 - as amended by the Royal Decree of April 17, 1972 - (last version before the "major" constitutional reform of 1983)
8. ↑ Udo Kempf and Jürgen Hartmann, Heads of State in Democracy (2011), p. 47 ( digitized version )
9. ↑ Wet van 30 mei 2002, houdende reguling van het lidmaatschap koninklijk huis alsmede daaraan verbonden title (Wet lidmaatschap koninklijk huis) , cf. also the constitution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands of August 24, 1815, in the version of the new announcement of February 17, 1983 (§ 1. The King)
10. ↑ Het wapen voor de Dochter van prins Willem-Alexander en prinses Máxima is bij Koninklijk Besluit vastgesteld ( Memento of the original of March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 6, 2013)  
11. ↑ Besluit van November 21, 2003 dead vaststelling van het wapen van kinderen who may have been born uit het huwelijk van Zijne Koninklijke Hoogheid Prins Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand, Prins van Oranje, Prins der Nederlanden, Prins van Oranje-Nassau, Jonkheer van Amsberg met Hare Koninklijke Hoogheid Prinses Máxima der Nederlanden, Prinses van Oranje-Nassau, mevrouw van Amsberg (accessed on May 8, 2013)
12. ↑ Friesch Dagblad on November 28, 2003: Interview with the designer of the coat of arms (accessed on May 8, 2013)
13. ↑ Leibbrandt Archive: Het wapen dat is ontworpen voor de kinderen van prins Willem-Alexander an prinses Maximá (Tekening Piet Bultsma, medewerker van de Hoge Raad van Adel) (accessed on May 6, 2013)
14. ↑ Heráldica en la Argentina on April 30, 2013: Escudo de la Reina Maxima de los Países Bajos (accessed on May 7, 2013)
15. ↑ Het Koninklijk Huis: Wapens van leden van het Koninklijk Huis ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 6, 2013) 

predecessor	Office	successor
Willem-Alexander	Princess van Oranje since 2013	-
-	Dutch succession to the throne No. 1	Princess Alexia