Prince Pieter-Christian | |||||
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Prince of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven | |||||
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Nijmegen, Netherlands |
22 March 1972 ||||
Spouse | Anita van Eijk (m. 2005) | ||||
Issue | Emma van Vollenhoven Pieter van Vollenhoven |
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House | Orange-Nassau | ||||
Father | Pieter van Vollenhoven | ||||
Mother | Princess Margriet of the Netherlands |
Full name | |
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Pieter-Christiaan Michiel |
Royal styles of Prince Pieter-Christian of Orange Nassau, van Vollenhoven |
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Reference style | His Highness |
Spoken style | Your Highness |
Alternative style | Sir |
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 Pieter-Christiaan Michiel of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven (born 22 March 1972 in Nijmegen), is the third son of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven.
On 24 July 2010 he was made a Knight of the .
Prince Pieter-Christiaan lived during his early years at the estate near the Het Loo Palace in Apeldoorn. In Apeldoorn he also attended the primary school and his high school. After graduation he did his military conscription at the Royal Marechaussee, for which his still was enlisted as a Reserve Lieutenant Colonel. He subsequently obtained his LL.M. degree in Law at the Utrecht University in 1999.
Between 2000 and 2003 he worked for Equity Capital Markets in London, which is a joint venture between the ABN AMRO and NM Rothschild.
In autumn 2003 Prince Pieter-Christiaan successfully finished a one-year MBA at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne (Switzerland). From March 2004 he worked as a marketing strategist for the ICT-company Shopservices in Amsterdam. Since 13 September 2004, the prince is working as lieutenant colonel at the Operations Department of the Central Office of the Royal Marechaussee in The Hague.