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Willem-Alexander succeeded his mother as monarch upon her abdication on 30 April 2013. He is the first man to hold this position since the death of his great-great-grandfather William III in 1890, as the intervening three monarchs—his great-grandmother Wilhelmina , his grandmother Juliana and his mother Beatrix—had all been women.
The monarchy of the Netherlands is governed by the country's constitution, ... The current monarch is King Willem-Alexander (born 1967), who has been on the Throne ...
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.
Getty Images. 1. Who Currently Represents the Dutch Monarchy? King Willem-Alexander and his wife, Queen Máxima, are the current heads of the Dutch royal family.
Most states only have a single monarch at any given time, although a regent may rule when the monarch is a minor, not present, or otherwise incapable of ruling. [5] Cases in which two monarchs rule simultaneously over a single state, as is the current situation in Andorra, are known as coregencies. [6]
In addition, Maxima, as the spouse of the Dutch monarch, became Queen Consort. Finally, per tradition, Beatrix and King Willem-Alexander together with Queen Maxima, appeared on the balcony of the Royal Palace with the former monarch announcing to those gathered and watching, her son's ascension as the new monarch.
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 second degree are siblings); the heir to the throne; the former monarch (on abdication);
The budget for the current monarch of the Netherlands, King Willem-Alexander, was $48 million in 2022, the NL Times reported. Willem-Alexander's budget covers the cost of oversea tours and ...