Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange

HM King Willem- Alexander HM 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 van Oranje, 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 thus since April 30, 2013 as the Princess of Orange, the Crown Princess of the Netherlands. Your title is HRH.

Life

The princess, whose family nickname is Amalia, was born in 2003 as the first of three daughters of the Dutch Crown Prince Willem- Alexander and Máxima. On June 12, 2004 Catharina - Amalia was baptized in the Grote Kerk in The Hague Carel ter Linden. Your 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).

For the Princess of Orange, she was referred to in Article 7 of the Law of Membership of the Royal House from the time of the abdication of her grandmother, Queen Beatrix, on April 30, 2013, as it now stands as the oldest child of the King # 1 on the Dutch throne.

Catharina - Amalia is the first Crown Princess, which officially bears ( not to be confused with the less exclusive van Oranje -Nassau ), the female form of the title of Orange in its own right. According to Article 27 of the Constitution of the Netherlands, the crown prince title " Prins van Oranje " led ( Prince of Orange ) to 1983 only " the eldest of the king's sons, or other male descendants, who is the presumptive heir to the crown ." An heir to the throne has been described as " the daughter of the king, which is the presumptive heir to the crown ." Only the change in the constitution of the Netherlands on February 17, 1983 in its Article 25, the succession of the eldest child of the monarch before - regardless of gender. Previously male offspring were preferred in the succession. Queen Beatrix laid on 30 May 2002 established a system of the titles of the members of the royal family.

Official tasks used

You will be a member of the Dutch Council of State constitutionally, to her 18th birthday.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of the Princess Royal, Princess of Orange, shows the same content as the sign of her two younger sisters, Princess Alexia and Princess Ariane, and her mother Queen Maxima of the personal coat of arms, and is also covered with the royal crown. It was already determined at birth the then future crown princess by decree, the royal decision was done on 21 November 2003. It was designed by Piet Bultsma, member of the Hoge Raad van Adel. In the first and fourth quarter shows the lion of the royal Dutch national coat of arms and in the second and third quarters of the hunting horn of the historic Principality of Orange, from which the title Prince of Orange is derived. The Golden Heart sign is the emblem of the Zorreguieta family, the Queen Máxima paternal comes: on wavy blue sign foot a red castle with battlements and three towers uprooted between two green cypress trees whose trunks are each covered by an inturned current black wolf. As a married woman, however, leads Queen Maxima of the coat of arms in oval shield.

Medals and honors

Street Name

Probably with the new construction and the remodeling of the station Ypenburg and its environment by the year 2005 has been designated by The Hague Prinses Catharina - Amaliastraat one of the roads on the western outskirts. The Amaliastraat, not far from the King of the Dutch seat of government, however, was not named after the crown princess, but probably after Amalia of Saxe -Weimar- Eisenach, the first wife of Prince Henry of the Netherlands. Also, the name was already in front of her, represented by Amalie of Solms- Braunfels, wife of Frederick Henry of Orange, stayed at the house of Orange.

Drive up

Baron Wilhelm von Amsberg (1856-1929) ∞ 1889 Elise of Vieregge (1866-1951)

Baron Georg von dem Bussche - Haddenhausen (1869-1923) ∞ 1896 Baroness Gabrielle Marie von dem Bussche - Ippenburg (1877-1973)

Prince Bernhard of Lippe - Biesterfeld (1872-1934) ∞ 1909 Baroness ARMGARD of Sierstorpff - Cramm (1883-1971)

Duke Henry of Mecklenburg (1876-1934) ∞ 1901 Queen Wilhelmina (1880-1962)

Amadeo Zorreguieta Hernández ( * 1856/68? ) ∞ Maxima Blanca Bonorino Halbach (1874-1965)

Oreste ( s ) Stefanini ∞ Tullia Borella (* 1876 )

Santiago Anastasio Cerruti Ponce de León ( 1868/72? -1940 ) ∞ María de las Mercedes ( de ) Sautu Martínez ( 1876/7? -1955 )

Domingo Carricart Etchart (1885-1953) ∞ Carmen Rodríguez Cieza

Klaus Felix von Amsberg (1890-1953) ∞ 1924 Gosta von dem Bussche - Haddenhausen (1902-1996)

Prince Bernhard of Lippe - Biesterfeld (1911-2004) ∞ 1937 Juliana (1909-2004), Queen of the Netherlands 1948-1980

Juan Antonio Zorreguieta Bonorino (1899-1959) ∞ Maria Cesira Stefanini Borella (1901-1999)

Jorge Horacio de Cerruti Sautu (1911-1992) ∞ 1942 María del Carmen Carricart Cieza ( 1914/5? -1999 )

Prince Claus von Amsberg (1926-2002) ∞ 1966 Beatrix ( born 1938 ), Queen of the Netherlands 1980-2013

Jorge Horacio Zorreguieta Stefanini ( b. 1928 ) ∞ 1970 María del Carmen Cerruti Carricart ( b. 1944 )

Willem- Alexander ( born 1967), King of the Netherlands since 2013 ∞ 2002 Maxima born Zorreguieta Cerruti (born 1971 ), since 2013 dubbed as the wife of the king "Queen Máxima "

Princess Catharina - Amalia van Oranje -Nassau (* 2003), as Princess of Orange Crown Princess of the Netherlands since 2013

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