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According to the Membership to the Royal House Act which was revised in 2002, the members of the royal house are: [3] the monarch (king or queen) as head of the royal house; the members of the royal family in the line of succession to the Dutch throne but limited to two degrees of kinship from the current monarch (first degree are parents and ...
The Dutch Royal Family historically have been members of the Dutch Reformed Church. It became the Protestant Church in the Netherlands after its 2004 merger, but some members of the royal family are Roman Catholic. There is no law in the Netherlands stipulating what religion the monarch should be, although the constitution stipulated up to 1983 ...
This is a list of monarchs of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koningen der Nederlanden). By practical extension, the list includes the stadtholders of the House of Orange Nassau since 1556. However, they were voted into office by, and were civil servants and generals of, the semi-independent provinces of the Dutch Republic and cannot be seen as monarchs.
After this, the royal studied history at Leiden University. The king is now fluent in five languages: English, Spanish, French, German and his native language, Dutch. Getty Images
He was the first male Dutch royal baby since the birth of Prince Alexander in 1851, and the first immediate male heir since Alexander's death in 1884. From birth, Willem-Alexander has held the titles Prince of the Netherlands ( Dutch : Prins der Nederlanden ), Prince of Orange-Nassau , and Jonkheer of Amsberg . [ 5 ]
The following is a family tree for the Princes of Orange, a line which culminated in the Dutch monarchy with the accession of Prince William VI to the newly created throne of the Netherlands in 1815. Dates given are those of birth and death; for Princes of Orange (shown in bold), the intermediate date is the date of accession to the Princedom.
Queen Queen Máxima of the Netherlands : Member of the Family Order of Laila Utama (prefix: Datu Laila Utama, post-nominal: DK, 21 January 2013) [citation needed] Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands (when Queen) : Member of the Royal Family Order of the Crown of Brunei (post-nominal: DKMB, 21 January 2013) [44]
Wilhelmina died of cardiac arrest in Het Loo Palace at the age of 82 on 28 November 1962. She was buried in the Dutch royal family crypt in the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft, on 8 December. At her request and contrary to protocol, the funeral was completely in white to give expression to her belief that earthly death was the beginning of eternal life.