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http://www.facebook.com/NSOTD Aged 46, Willem-Alexander is an immensely popular figure in the Netherlands, thanks in no small measure to his glamorous and do...
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name | Willem-Alexander |
title | Prince of Orange (more) |
spouse | Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti (m. 2002) |
issue | Princess Catharina-Amalia Princess Alexia Princess Ariane |
issue-link | Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange#Issue |
full name | Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand |
house | House of Orange-NassauHouse of Amsberg |
father | Claus von Amsberg |
mother | Beatrix of the Netherlands |
birth date | April 27, 1967 |
birth place | Utrecht, Netherlands |
religion | Protestant Church in the Netherlands }} |
Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange (Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand; born 27 April 1967), has been heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 1980. He is the eldest child of Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus and has been the head of the House of Amsberg since the death of his father in 2002. He served in the Dutch military and studied history at Leiden University. Prince Willem-Alexander is currently interested in international water management issues and sports. He married Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti in 2002. They have three daughters: Princess Catharina-Amalia (born 2003), Princess Alexia (born 2005), and Princess Ariane (born 2007).
On 28 January 2013, the Prince's mother announced in a television broadcast that she will abdicate in favour of Willem-Alexander on 30 April 2013. He will ascend the throne with the regnal name of Willem-Alexander and become the first king of the Netherlands since the death of his great-great-grandfather, William III, in 1890. When Willem-Alexander becomes king, his 9 year old daughter, Catharina-Amalia, will become heiress-apparent.
From birth Willem-Alexander has the titles Prince of the Netherlands (), Prince of Orange-Nassau (Dutch: Prins van Oranje-Nassau), and Jonkheer of Amsberg (Dutch: Jonkheer van Amsberg). He was baptised as a member of the Dutch Reformed Church on 2 September 1967 in Saint Jacob's Church in The Hague. His godparents are Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck, Prime Minister Jelle Zijlstra, and Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.
He has two younger brothers: Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, born in 1968, and Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, born in 1969. He lived with his family at the castle Drakesteijn in the hamlet Lage Vuursche near Baarn from his birth until 1981, when they moved to the larger palace Huis ten Bosch in The Hague. His mother Beatrix became queen of the Netherlands in 1980, after his grandmother Juliana abdicated. He then received the title of Prince of Orange as heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of the autonomous countries of the Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten.
Prince Willem-Alexander attended Nieuwe Baarnse Elementary School in Baarn from 1973 to 1979. He went to three different high schools: the Baarns Lyceum in Baarn from 1979 to 1981, the Eerste Vrijzinnig Christelijk Lyceum in The Hague from 1981 to 1983, and the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales near Llantwit Major (1983 to 1985), where the prince had friends, and from which he received his International Baccalaureate.
After high school, he performed military service in the Royal Netherlands Navy from August 1985 to January 1987. He received his training at the Royal Netherlands Naval College and the frigates HNLMS Tromp and HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen, where he was an ensign. In 1988, he received additional training at the ship HNLMS Van Kinsbergen and became a lieutenant (junior grade).
From 1987, Prince Willem-Alexander studied history at Leiden University and received his academic degree in 1993. His final dissertation was on the Dutch response to France's decision under President Charles de Gaulle to leave NATO's integrated command structure. During this period he received the nickname prins pils (prince pilsner).
Prince Willem-Alexander is interested in water management issues. He is an honorary member of the World Commission on Water for the 21st century and patron of the Global Water Partnership, a body established by the World Bank, the UN, and the Swedish Ministry of Development. He was appointed as the Chairperson of the United Nations Secretary General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation on 12 December 2006.
The prince is a member of the Raad van State, the highest council to the Dutch government that is chaired by his mother, Queen Beatrix. As part of his royal duties, he holds commissions in the Dutch Army (as brigadier), Navy (as commandeur), and Air Force (as commodore).
He was a patron of the Dutch Olympic Games Committee until 1998 when he was made a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, he has expressed support to bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics.
On 28 January 2013, Queen Beatrix announced that she plans to abdicate in favour of Willem-Alexander. The official programme for the abdication and investiture will take place on 30 April 2013. The Queen will sign the Instrument of Abdication at the Royal Palace, Amsterdam. The investiture of Willem-Alexander as His Majesty the King will then take place at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam.
Using the name "W.A. van Buren", one of the less well-known titles of the House of Orange-Nassau, he has participated in the New York City Marathon, where his aunt, Princess Christina, and several cousins live. In the Netherlands, he was a participant in the Frisian Eleven Cities ice skating marathon, aka the Elfstedentocht.
Prince Willem-Alexander and his wife travelled to South Africa to support the national team during the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and were shown on worldwide television wearing orange clothing.
Willem-Alexander speaks English and German in addition to his native Dutch.
On 2 February 2002, he married Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti (born 17 May 1971) at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. Máxima is an Argentine woman of Basque, Portuguese and Italian ancestry who prior to their marriage worked as an investment banker in New York City. The marriage triggered significant controversy due to the bride's father's prior role in the Argentinian military dictatorship.
The prince is a direct descendant of Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, eldest daughter of British King George II. However, under the British Act of Settlement, Prince Willem-Alexander forfeited his (distant) succession rights to the throne of the United Kingdom, because he married a Roman Catholic.
During a ski vacation in Argentina, several photographs were taken of the prince and his family during the private part of their holiday (including one by Associated Press staff photographer Natacha Pisarenko) in spite of the media code, and after a photo op had earlier been provided. The Associated Press decided to publish some of the photos. The pictures were also republished by several Dutch media.
Prince Willem-Alexander and the RVD jointly filed suit against the Associated Press on 5 August 2009. The trial started on 14 August at the district court in Amsterdam and concluded with a verdict on 28 August. The court found in favor of the Prince and the RVD, citing that the royal couple has a right to privacy and the pictures in question add nothing to any public debate, nor are they of any particular value to society (since they are not photographs of the royals "at work"). Associated Press was sentenced to stop further publication of the photographs, on pain of a €1000 fine per violation with a €50000 maximum.
On 10 July 2008, the Prince and Princess of Orange announced that they had invested in a development project on the Mozambican peninsula of Machangulo. The development project was aimed at building an ecologically responsible vacation resort, including a hotel and several luxury vacation houses for investors. The project was to invest heavily in the local economy of the peninsula (building schools and a local clinic) with an eye both towards responsible sustainability and maintaining a local staff. After contacting Mozambican president Armando Guebuza to verify that the Mozambican government had no objections, the couple decided to invest in two villas.
In 2009 there was controversy and a swirl of rumors about the project and the prince's position in relation to it. Politician Alexander Pechtold questioned the morality of building such a resort in a poor country like Mozambique. There were allegations of corruption involving a contractor on the project and project delays in constructing the schools and clinic.
In November 2009, there were a number of parliamentary debates on the issue and Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende was called to answer questions. He explained that the project was a private affair of the prince, but that extra distance had been created between the prince and the business of the project to avoid entanglements by creating a foundation to manage the prince's interests. The press called the independence of that foundation into question, because it was run by a personal friend of the prince's and a co-investor in the project.
On 20 November 2009, the prime minister returned to parliament to announce that the prince and princess had decided, due to the public and parliamentary controversy, to sell the property in Machangulo once their house was completed. To this end he read a letter in parliament written by the prince personally. The house was due to be sold on completion in 2010. Its sale was confirmed in January 2012.
name | The Prince of Orange |
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dipstyle | His Royal Highness |
offstyle | Your Royal Highness |
altstyle | Sir }} |
When his mother Queen Beatrix became the queen regnant of the Netherlands, Prince Willem-Alexander obtained the title "Prince of Orange" as heir apparent to the Dutch throne. He is formally styled as His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange.
He is the first male heir apparent to the Dutch throne since Prince Alexander, son of King William III, who died in 1884. Prince Willem-Alexander had indicated that if he became king, he would take the name William IV, but it was announced on 28 January 2013 that his regnal name would be William-Alexander.
;Royal Netherlands Navy – Reserve
;Royal Netherlands Air Force – Reserve
;Royal Netherlands Army – Reserve
;Royal Marechaussee – Reserve
;Dutch orders and decorations
;Foreign orders : Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (before 1993) : Grand Cross of the Order of the Southern Cross : The Most Esteemed Family Order of Honour of Brunei : Grand Cross of the Order of the Merit of Chile : Knight of the Order of the Elephant : Grand Cross of the National Order of the Legion of Honour : Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit : Grand Cross of the Federal Cross of Merit : Grand Cross of the Order of Mahaputera : Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum : Grand Cross of the Order of Adolphe of Nassau : Grand Cross of the Order of the Oak Crown : Band of the Order of the Aztec Eagle : Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav (1996) : Supreme Class of the Order of the Renaissance of Oman (10 January 2012) : Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic : Knight of the Royal Order of the Seraphim (2006) : Grand Cross of the Order of Chula Chom Klao (2004) : Member of the Union Order (9 January 2012) : Grand Cordon of the Order of the Liberator
bannerimage | Royal Sandard of the Princes of the Nethelands (Sons of Queen Beatrix).png |
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notes | Coat of arms of the sons of the Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands: The Prince of Orange, and Prince Constantijn. These arms are thus also used by his brother, Prince Constantijn, and his other brother Prince Friso until his marriage, when he was granted a new coat of arms. On his succession to the throne, the Prince of Orange will adopt the arms of dominion of the Netherlands. |
adopted | 1967 |
helm | The left helm and crest is the "Otto-crest" of the House of Nassau that can be used in the Royal arms by the male successors to the throne: On a (ceremonial) helmet Argent, with bars and decoration Or and mantling Azure and Or, issuing from a coronet Or, a pair of wings joined Sable each with an arched bend Argent charged with three leaves of the lime-tree stems upward Vert. The right helm and crest is the crest of the House of Amsberg that can be used in the arms by all male Amsberg descendants: On a (ceremonial) helmet Argent, with bars and decoration Or and mantling Vert and Argent, issuing from a coronet Or, and as crest a Or lion rampant. |
escutcheon | Quarterly, 1 and 3, Azure, billetty or a lion with a coronet or armed and langued Gules holding in his dexter paw a sword Argent hilted or and in the sinister paw seven arrows Argent pointed and bound together or (royal arms of the Netherlands, i.e. that of his mother, Queen Beatrix), 2 and 4, Or, and a bugle-horn azure, langued gules (arms of the former Principality of Orange), on an inescutcheon vert, a castle proper, on a mount of the last (arms of the House of Amsberg, i.e. that of his late father, Prince Claus). |
supporters | Two lions rampant or armed and langued Gules. |
other elements | The coat of arms is placed on a mantle gules lined with Ermine, this as a Prince of the Netherlands. The mantle is topped with the royal crown. |
banner | Personal Royal Standard of the sons of Queen Beatrix: The Prince of Orange, Prince Friso, Prince Constantijn. A rectangular Orange flag is used, divided by a nassau Blue Cross into four quadrants. Quarterly 1 and 3: white and blue bugle-horn, taken from the coat of arms of the Principality of Orange. Quarterly 1 and 3: white Watchtower, which is based on that of the coat of arms of the House of Amsberg. In the middle of the cross the national coat of arms with the Royal Crown Royal is shown in an orange circle. On his succession to the throne, the Prince of Orange will adopt the Royal Standard of the Netherlands. |
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Coordinates | 40°37′29″N73°57′8″N |
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name | Willem-Alexander |
title | Prince of Orange (more) |
spouse | Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti (m. 2002) |
issue | Princess Catharina-Amalia Princess Alexia Princess Ariane |
issue-link | Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange#Issue |
full name | Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand |
house | House of Orange-NassauHouse of Amsberg |
father | Claus von Amsberg |
mother | Beatrix of the Netherlands |
birth date | April 27, 1967 |
birth place | Utrecht, Netherlands |
religion | Protestant Church in the Netherlands }} |
Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange (Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand; born 27 April 1967), has been heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 1980. He is the eldest child of Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus and has been the head of the House of Amsberg since the death of his father in 2002. He served in the Dutch military and studied history at Leiden University. Prince Willem-Alexander is currently interested in international water management issues and sports. He married Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti in 2002. They have three daughters: Princess Catharina-Amalia (born 2003), Princess Alexia (born 2005), and Princess Ariane (born 2007).
On 28 January 2013, the Prince's mother announced in a television broadcast that she will abdicate in favour of Willem-Alexander on 30 April 2013. He will ascend the throne with the regnal name of Willem-Alexander and become the first king of the Netherlands since the death of his great-great-grandfather, William III, in 1890. When Willem-Alexander becomes king, his 9 year old daughter, Catharina-Amalia, will become heiress-apparent.
From birth Willem-Alexander has the titles Prince of the Netherlands (), Prince of Orange-Nassau (Dutch: Prins van Oranje-Nassau), and Jonkheer of Amsberg (Dutch: Jonkheer van Amsberg). He was baptised as a member of the Dutch Reformed Church on 2 September 1967 in Saint Jacob's Church in The Hague. His godparents are Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck, Prime Minister Jelle Zijlstra, and Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.
He has two younger brothers: Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, born in 1968, and Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, born in 1969. He lived with his family at the castle Drakesteijn in the hamlet Lage Vuursche near Baarn from his birth until 1981, when they moved to the larger palace Huis ten Bosch in The Hague. His mother Beatrix became queen of the Netherlands in 1980, after his grandmother Juliana abdicated. He then received the title of Prince of Orange as heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of the autonomous countries of the Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten.
Prince Willem-Alexander attended Nieuwe Baarnse Elementary School in Baarn from 1973 to 1979. He went to three different high schools: the Baarns Lyceum in Baarn from 1979 to 1981, the Eerste Vrijzinnig Christelijk Lyceum in The Hague from 1981 to 1983, and the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales near Llantwit Major (1983 to 1985), where the prince had friends, and from which he received his International Baccalaureate.
After high school, he performed military service in the Royal Netherlands Navy from August 1985 to January 1987. He received his training at the Royal Netherlands Naval College and the frigates HNLMS Tromp and HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen, where he was an ensign. In 1988, he received additional training at the ship HNLMS Van Kinsbergen and became a lieutenant (junior grade).
From 1987, Prince Willem-Alexander studied history at Leiden University and received his academic degree in 1993. His final dissertation was on the Dutch response to France's decision under President Charles de Gaulle to leave NATO's integrated command structure. During this period he received the nickname prins pils (prince pilsner).
Prince Willem-Alexander is interested in water management issues. He is an honorary member of the World Commission on Water for the 21st century and patron of the Global Water Partnership, a body established by the World Bank, the UN, and the Swedish Ministry of Development. He was appointed as the Chairperson of the United Nations Secretary General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation on 12 December 2006.
The prince is a member of the Raad van State, the highest council to the Dutch government that is chaired by his mother, Queen Beatrix. As part of his royal duties, he holds commissions in the Dutch Army (as brigadier), Navy (as commandeur), and Air Force (as commodore).
He was a patron of the Dutch Olympic Games Committee until 1998 when he was made a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, he has expressed support to bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics.
On 28 January 2013, Queen Beatrix announced that she plans to abdicate in favour of Willem-Alexander. The official programme for the abdication and investiture will take place on 30 April 2013. The Queen will sign the Instrument of Abdication at the Royal Palace, Amsterdam. The investiture of Willem-Alexander as His Majesty the King will then take place at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam.
Using the name "W.A. van Buren", one of the less well-known titles of the House of Orange-Nassau, he has participated in the New York City Marathon, where his aunt, Princess Christina, and several cousins live. In the Netherlands, he was a participant in the Frisian Eleven Cities ice skating marathon, aka the Elfstedentocht.
Prince Willem-Alexander and his wife travelled to South Africa to support the national team during the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and were shown on worldwide television wearing orange clothing.
Willem-Alexander speaks English and German in addition to his native Dutch.
On 2 February 2002, he married Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti (born 17 May 1971) at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. Máxima is an Argentine woman of Basque, Portuguese and Italian ancestry who prior to their marriage worked as an investment banker in New York City. The marriage triggered significant controversy due to the bride's father's prior role in the Argentinian military dictatorship.
The prince is a direct descendant of Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, eldest daughter of British King George II. However, under the British Act of Settlement, Prince Willem-Alexander forfeited his (distant) succession rights to the throne of the United Kingdom, because he married a Roman Catholic.
During a ski vacation in Argentina, several photographs were taken of the prince and his family during the private part of their holiday (including one by Associated Press staff photographer Natacha Pisarenko) in spite of the media code, and after a photo op had earlier been provided. The Associated Press decided to publish some of the photos. The pictures were also republished by several Dutch media.
Prince Willem-Alexander and the RVD jointly filed suit against the Associated Press on 5 August 2009. The trial started on 14 August at the district court in Amsterdam and concluded with a verdict on 28 August. The court found in favor of the Prince and the RVD, citing that the royal couple has a right to privacy and the pictures in question add nothing to any public debate, nor are they of any particular value to society (since they are not photographs of the royals "at work"). Associated Press was sentenced to stop further publication of the photographs, on pain of a €1000 fine per violation with a €50000 maximum.
On 10 July 2008, the Prince and Princess of Orange announced that they had invested in a development project on the Mozambican peninsula of Machangulo. The development project was aimed at building an ecologically responsible vacation resort, including a hotel and several luxury vacation houses for investors. The project was to invest heavily in the local economy of the peninsula (building schools and a local clinic) with an eye both towards responsible sustainability and maintaining a local staff. After contacting Mozambican president Armando Guebuza to verify that the Mozambican government had no objections, the couple decided to invest in two villas.
In 2009 there was controversy and a swirl of rumors about the project and the prince's position in relation to it. Politician Alexander Pechtold questioned the morality of building such a resort in a poor country like Mozambique. There were allegations of corruption involving a contractor on the project and project delays in constructing the schools and clinic.
In November 2009, there were a number of parliamentary debates on the issue and Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende was called to answer questions. He explained that the project was a private affair of the prince, but that extra distance had been created between the prince and the business of the project to avoid entanglements by creating a foundation to manage the prince's interests. The press called the independence of that foundation into question, because it was run by a personal friend of the prince's and a co-investor in the project.
On 20 November 2009, the prime minister returned to parliament to announce that the prince and princess had decided, due to the public and parliamentary controversy, to sell the property in Machangulo once their house was completed. To this end he read a letter in parliament written by the prince personally. The house was due to be sold on completion in 2010. Its sale was confirmed in January 2012.
name | The Prince of Orange |
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dipstyle | His Royal Highness |
offstyle | Your Royal Highness |
altstyle | Sir }} |
When his mother Queen Beatrix became the queen regnant of the Netherlands, Prince Willem-Alexander obtained the title "Prince of Orange" as heir apparent to the Dutch throne. He is formally styled as His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange.
He is the first male heir apparent to the Dutch throne since Prince Alexander, son of King William III, who died in 1884. Prince Willem-Alexander had indicated that if he became king, he would take the name William IV, but it was announced on 28 January 2013 that his regnal name would be William-Alexander.
;Royal Netherlands Navy – Reserve
;Royal Netherlands Air Force – Reserve
;Royal Netherlands Army – Reserve
;Royal Marechaussee – Reserve
;Dutch orders and decorations
;Foreign orders : Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (before 1993) : Grand Cross of the Order of the Southern Cross : The Most Esteemed Family Order of Honour of Brunei : Grand Cross of the Order of the Merit of Chile : Knight of the Order of the Elephant : Grand Cross of the National Order of the Legion of Honour : Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit : Grand Cross of the Federal Cross of Merit : Grand Cross of the Order of Mahaputera : Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum : Grand Cross of the Order of Adolphe of Nassau : Grand Cross of the Order of the Oak Crown : Band of the Order of the Aztec Eagle : Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav (1996) : Supreme Class of the Order of the Renaissance of Oman (10 January 2012) : Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic : Knight of the Royal Order of the Seraphim (2006) : Grand Cross of the Order of Chula Chom Klao (2004) : Member of the Union Order (9 January 2012) : Grand Cordon of the Order of the Liberator
bannerimage | Royal Sandard of the Princes of the Nethelands (Sons of Queen Beatrix).png |
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notes | Coat of arms of the sons of the Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands: The Prince of Orange, and Prince Constantijn. These arms are thus also used by his brother, Prince Constantijn, and his other brother Prince Friso until his marriage, when he was granted a new coat of arms. On his succession to the throne, the Prince of Orange will adopt the arms of dominion of the Netherlands. |
adopted | 1967 |
helm | The left helm and crest is the "Otto-crest" of the House of Nassau that can be used in the Royal arms by the male successors to the throne: On a (ceremonial) helmet Argent, with bars and decoration Or and mantling Azure and Or, issuing from a coronet Or, a pair of wings joined Sable each with an arched bend Argent charged with three leaves of the lime-tree stems upward Vert. The right helm and crest is the crest of the House of Amsberg that can be used in the arms by all male Amsberg descendants: On a (ceremonial) helmet Argent, with bars and decoration Or and mantling Vert and Argent, issuing from a coronet Or, and as crest a Or lion rampant. |
escutcheon | Quarterly, 1 and 3, Azure, billetty or a lion with a coronet or armed and langued Gules holding in his dexter paw a sword Argent hilted or and in the sinister paw seven arrows Argent pointed and bound together or (royal arms of the Netherlands, i.e. that of his mother, Queen Beatrix), 2 and 4, Or, and a bugle-horn azure, langued gules (arms of the former Principality of Orange), on an inescutcheon vert, a castle proper, on a mount of the last (arms of the House of Amsberg, i.e. that of his late father, Prince Claus). |
supporters | Two lions rampant or armed and langued Gules. |
other elements | The coat of arms is placed on a mantle gules lined with Ermine, this as a Prince of the Netherlands. The mantle is topped with the royal crown. |
banner | Personal Royal Standard of the sons of Queen Beatrix: The Prince of Orange, Prince Friso, Prince Constantijn. A rectangular Orange flag is used, divided by a nassau Blue Cross into four quadrants. Quarterly 1 and 3: white and blue bugle-horn, taken from the coat of arms of the Principality of Orange. Quarterly 1 and 3: white Watchtower, which is based on that of the coat of arms of the House of Amsberg. In the middle of the cross the national coat of arms with the Royal Crown Royal is shown in an orange circle. On his succession to the throne, the Prince of Orange will adopt the Royal Standard of the Netherlands. |
previous versions | }} |
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