Prince Constantijn | |||||
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Prince Constantijn in 2015
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Born |
, Utrecht, Netherlands |
11 October 1969 ||||
Spouse | Petra Laurentien Brinkhorst (m. 2001) | ||||
Issue |
Countess Eloise Count Claus-Casimir Countess Leonore |
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House | Orange-Nassau | ||||
Father | Claus von Amsberg | ||||
Mother | Beatrix of the Netherlands | ||||
Religion | Protestant Church in the Netherlands |
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Constantijn Christof Frederik Aschwin |
Dutch royal family |
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Extended royal family
* Member of the Dutch royal house
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HRH Princess Margriet *
Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven *
Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands (Constantijn Christof Frederik Aschwin; born 11 October 1969) is the third and youngest son of the former Dutch queen, Beatrix, and her husband, Claus von Amsberg, and is the younger brother of the current Dutch monarch, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands. He is a member of the Dutch Royal House and currently fourth in the line of succession to the Dutch throne.
Prince Constantijn was born in , following the births of his brothers, Willem-Alexander (born in 1967), and Johan Friso (1968–2013). He goes by the nickname Tijn. His godparents are former King Constantine II of Greece, Prince Aschwin of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst, Max Kohnstamm, and Corinne de Beaufort-Sickinghe.
Prince Constantijn studied Law at Leiden University, becoming a lawyer, and then worked at the Brussels department of (Dutch) European Union commissioner of foreign relations Van den Broek. Later, he was hired by the EU, and continued to work there in various capacities until the end of 1999. In December 2000, he was awarded a Master of Business Administration at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He then spent a summer working for the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank group in Washington, D.C.. He worked until late 2002 for strategic consultants Booz Allen Hamilton in London. Since 2003 he works for the RAND Corporation Europe in Brussels. Furthermore, he has a part-time position at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague.