Princess Christina | |||||
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Princess Christina in 2015
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Born |
Soestdijk Palace, Baarn, Netherlands |
18 February 1947 ||||
Spouse | Jorge Pérez y Guillermo (m. 1975; div. 1996) |
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Issue |
Bernardo Guillermo Nicolás Guillermo Juliana Guillermo |
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House | Orange-Nassau | ||||
Father | Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld | ||||
Mother | Juliana of the Netherlands | ||||
Religion |
Roman Catholicism prev. Calvinism |
Full name | |
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Maria Christina |
Dutch royal family |
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Extended royal family
* Member of the Dutch royal house
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Styles of Princess Christina of The Netherlands |
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Reference style | Her Royal Highness |
Spoken style | Your Royal Highness |
Alternative style | Ma'am |
HRH Princess Margriet *
Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven *
HRH Princess Christina
Princess Christina of the Netherlands (Maria Christina; born 18 February 1947) is the youngest of four daughters born to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld.
Princess Christina, known then as Princess Marijke (her first name in Dutch), was born Princess Maria Christina on 18 February 1947, at Soestdijk Palace, Baarn Netherlands. Her mother was the then Princess Juliana, Princess of Orange, only child and heir of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and her late husband Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. At the time of her birth, she was fifth in the line of succession to her grandmother, Queen Wilhelmina. Her father was Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, a son of Prince Bernhard of Lippe and his wife Armgard von Cramm.
Christina has three older sisters: Princess Beatrix, Princess Irene and Princess Margriet.