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Queen Máxima

Máxima
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Queen Maxima in 2015
Queen consort of the Netherlands
Tenure 30 April 2013 – present
Born Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti
(1971-05-17) 17 May 1971 (age 45)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Spouse Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (m. 2002)
Issue Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange
Princess Alexia
Princess Ariane
Father Jorge Zorreguieta
Mother María del Carmen Cerruti Carricart
Religion Roman Catholic

HM The King *
HM The Queen *

HRH Princess Beatrix *

HRH Princess Irene

HRH Princess Margriet *
Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven *

HRH Princess Christina

Queen Máxima of the Netherlands (born Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti; 17 May 1971) is the wife of King Willem-Alexander. On 30 April 2013, she became the first Dutch queen consort since 1890.

Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 17 May 1971. Queen Máxima is the daughter of Jorge Zorreguieta (born 1928), Secretary of Agriculture under President Jorge Rafael Videla during the National Reorganization Process dictatorship, and his second wife, María del Carmen Cerruti Carricart (born 1944). She has two brothers, a sister and three half-sisters by her father's first wife, Marta López Gil. She is named after her paternal great-grandmother Máxima Bonorino González (1874–1965). Her father was a member of the Zorreguieta family who had been landed gentry, professionals, regional politicians and statesmen for generations. Her maternal great-grandfather was also from the landed gentry; Domingo Carricart Etchart (1885-1953) was a landowner, politician, Director del Banco Provincial de Buenos Aires, first mayor of González Chaves, and the mayor of Tres Arroyos.

She grew up in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires city, and studied at Northlands School, a bilingual school of the city of Olivos. She graduated with a degree in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in 1995, and later completed her studies with a Master's degree in the United States. She subsequently worked for large international finance companies in Argentina, New York, and Brussels. She also worked as an English language teacher to children and adults, and of Mathematics for high school students and freshmen.


Arms of Queen Máxima of the Netherlands
Coat of Arms of Maxima, Queen of the Netherlands.svg
Notes
This coat of arms is used by Queen Máxima of the Netherlands. It was granted by royal decree-law of Queen Beatrix on 25 January 2002.
Escutcheon
Quarterly: I and IV azure billety or, a lion with coronet also or armed and langued gules, holding in his dexter paw a sword argent hilted or, and in his sinister seven arrows argent pointed and bound together or, which is of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; II and III or, a horn azure opened and bound gules, which is of the First House of Orange; an inescutcheon or bearing a castle of three towers gules flanked on each side by a poplar tree au naturel, and a river azure flowing from the base, ondoyant to the gate of the castle, which is of the house of Zorreguieta in Argentina.
Symbolism
Arms of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.svg The first and fourth quarters are the coat of arms of the Netherlands, based on the coat of arms of the House of Nassau.
Arms of the Principality of Orange.svg The second and third quarters are the coat of arms of the Prince of Orange.
Arms of the Zorreguieta Family.svg In the center is the coat of arms of Queen Máxima's paternal family, the Zorreguieta family.
Dutch royalty
Vacant
Title last held by
Claus von Amsberg
as prince consort 		Queen consort of the Netherlands
30 April 2013 – present		 Incumbent

Notes
This coat of arms is used by Queen Máxima of the Netherlands. It was granted by royal decree-law of Queen Beatrix on 25 January 2002.
Escutcheon
Quarterly: I and IV azure billety or, a lion with coronet also or armed and langued gules, holding in his dexter paw a sword argent hilted or, and in his sinister seven arrows argent pointed and bound together or, which is of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; II and III or, a horn azure opened and bound gules, which is of the First House of Orange; an inescutcheon or bearing a castle of three towers gules flanked on each side by a poplar tree au naturel, and a river azure flowing from the base, ondoyant to the gate of the castle, which is of the house of Zorreguieta in Argentina.
Symbolism
Arms of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.svg The first and fourth quarters are the coat of arms of the Netherlands, based on the coat of arms of the House of Nassau.
Arms of the Principality of Orange.svg The second and third quarters are the coat of arms of the Prince of Orange.
Arms of the Zorreguieta Family.svg In the center is the coat of arms of Queen Máxima's paternal family, the Zorreguieta family.
  • Countess Luana
  • Countess Zaria
  • HRH The Hereditary Prince of Parma
  • HRH Princess Luisa of Bourbon-Parma
  • HRH Princess Cecilia of Bourbon-Parma
  • Julia ten Cate
  • Paola ten Cate
  • HRH Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma
  • HRH Princess Gloria of Bourbon-Parma
  • Alaïa-Maria Brenninkmeijer
  • Xavier Brenninkmeijer
  • Anna van Lippe-Biesterfeld van Vollenhoven
  • Lucas van Lippe-Biesterfeld van Vollenhoven
  • Felicia van Lippe-Biesterfeld van Vollenhoven
  • Isabella van Vollenhoven
  • Samuel van Vollenhoven
  • Benjamin van Vollenhoven
  • Emma van Vollenhoven
  • Pieter van Vollenhoven
  • Magali van Vollenhoven
  • Eliane van Vollenhoven
  • Willem van Vollenhoven
  • Bernardo Guillermo
    Eva Guillermo
    • Isabel Christina Guillermo
    • Julián Jorge Guillermo
  • Nicolás Guillermo
  • Juliana Guillermo
  • Isabel Christina Guillermo
  • Julián Jorge Guillermo
  • 17 May 1971 – 2 February 2002: Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti
  • 2 February 2002 – 30 April 2013: Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima, Princess of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Mrs. van Amsberg
  • 30 April 2013 – present: Her Majesty The Queen of the Netherlands
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