Margriet of Orange-Nassau

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Margriet of Orange-Nassau (2005)
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Pieter van Vollenhoven

Margriet Francisca Princess of the Netherlands , Princess of Orange-Nassau , Princess zur Lippe-Biesterfeld (born January 19, 1943 in Ottawa ) is the third daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard zur Lippe-Biesterfeld .

Life

childhood and education

Margriet arrived in Ottawa ( Canada ) to the world, where the royal family after the occupation of the Netherlands (coinciding with Belgium and Luxembourg) by the Wehrmacht was staying in June 1940th The hospital room in the Ottawa Civic Hospital , in which the princess was born, was temporarily excluded from the scope of Canadian law (see extraterritoriality ), so that Princess Margriet did not receive dual citizenship, but only Dutch . After the liberation of the Netherlands from German occupation, Princess Margriet set foot on Dutch soil for the first time on August 2, 1945, together with her parents and sisters. The family moved into Palais Soestdijk in Baarn .

Princess Margriet first attended the Werkplaats Kindergemeenschap primary school in Bilthoven and, from the third grade onwards, the Nieuwe Baarnsche School in Baarn. She received high school lessons at the Baarnsch Lyceum, where she passed the school leaving examination in 1961. The princess then attended lectures on French literature, history and art history at the University of Montpellier for a year . Back in the Netherlands, she enrolled in the Law Faculty of Leiden University . She later completed an apprenticeship as an assistant to the Dutch Red Cross at the De Lichtenberg hospital in Amersfoort .

family

Princess Margriet's eldest sister is Princess Beatrix , who was Queen of the Netherlands from April 30, 1980 to April 30, 2013 . In the line of succession, Princess Margriet takes eighth place after the children of Willem-Alexander , Prince Constantijn and his children. Her two other sisters, Irene and Christina, lost their membership of the royal family and were excluded from the line of succession because they entered into marriages without the consent of the Dutch parliament and converted to Catholicism .

Marriage and offspring

Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven on their wedding day

During her studies in Leiden, Princess Margriet met Pieter van Vollenhoven (born April 30, 1939 in Schiedam ). The engagement was announced on March 10, 1965. The marriage ceremony took place on January 10, 1967, The Hague Mayor Hans Kolfschoten in what was then the town hall in Javastraat. Afterwards, Hendrikus Berkhof performed the church wedding in the St. Jacobskerk .

The couple moved into the right wing of Het Loo Castle in Apeldoorn . In 1975 the family moved to the Het Loo house, which Princess Margriet and her husband had built close to the castle.

The couple have four sons and eleven grandchildren:

  1. Prince Maurits Willem Pieter Hendrik (born April 17, 1968 in Utrecht ) and Princess Marilène (born Marie-Hélène Angela van den Broek on February 4, 1970 in Dieren ) have been married since May 29, 1998. They have two daughters and one son.
  2. Prince Bernhard Lucas Emmanuel (born December 25, 1969 in Nijmegen ) and Princess Annette (born as Annette Sekrève on April 18, 1972 in The Hague) have been married since July 6, 2000. They have a daughter and two sons.
  3. Prince Pieter-Christiaan Michiel (born March 22, 1972 in Nijmegen) and Princess Anita (born as Anita Theodora van Eijk on October 27, 1969 in Neuchâtel ) have been married since August 25, 2005. They have a son and a daughter.
  4. Prince Floris Frederik Martijn (born April 10, 1975 in Nijmegen) and Princess Aimée (born as Aimée Leonie Allegonde Marie Söhngen on October 18, 1977 in Amsterdam) have been married since October 20, 2005. They have two daughters and one son.

tasks

Princess Margriet at a meeting of the Dutch Red Cross on September 8, 1967

Princess Margriet holds functions in the societal, social and cultural area, as a member of the royal family she also takes on a representative role.

In 1966 Princess Margriet began her voluntary work for the Red Cross as a first class helper. From 1987 to 2011 she was Vice President of the Dutch Red Cross. In recognition of her commitment to the Dutch Red Cross, the Princess Margriet Fund was founded in 2011 with the aim of better preparing the population for natural disasters . Between 1995 and 2003 she was also President of the Permanent Commission of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement .

From 1984 to 2007 Margriet was President of the European Cultural Foundation .

She is patron u. a. the Netherland-America Foundation in New York, which was established to strengthen the friendly relations between the Netherlands and the United States, and the Dutch SOS Children's Villages Foundation .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Proclamation. (PDF) In: The Canada Gazette . December 26, 1942, accessed June 4, 2020 .
  2. CBC Digital Archives - 1943: Netherlands' Princess Margriet born in Ottawa. CBC / Radio-Canada , accessed on June 4, 2020 (English): "the Canadian government proclaimed the hospital's maternity suite" extraterritorial "so that the royal baby would have full Dutch citizenship"
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