Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti was born on 17 May 1971, daughter of Jorge Horacio Zorreguieta and Maria del Carmen Cerruti de Zorreguieta. She grew up in Buenos Aires.
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Máxima Zorreguieta
(1971)
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Queen Máxima passed her baccalaureate examinations at Northlands School in 1988. She graduated in economics from the Universidad Católica Argentina in 1995. From 1989 to 1990, while still at university, she worked for Mercado Abierto SA, where she did research into software for financial markets.
From 1992 to 1995, she worked in the Sales Department of Boston Securities SA in Buenos Aires. She also taught English to children and adults, and mathematics to secondary school pupils and first-year students.
From July 1996 to February 1998, Queen Máxima worked for HSBC James Capel Inc. in New York, where she was Vice-President of Latin American Institutional Sales. She then worked for Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, as Vice-President of the Emerging Markets Division, until July 1999.
She subsequently moved to Deutsche Bank in New York, where she was Vice-President of Institutional Sales. From May 2000 to March 2001, she worked at the EU Representative Office of Deutsche Bank in Brussels.
On 30 March 2001 Princess (then Queen) Beatrix and Prince Claus announced the engagement of the Prince of Orange and Máxima Zorreguieta.
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(Then) Prince Willem-Alexander and Maxima Zorreguieta
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On 3 July 2001 the two houses of parliament passed a bill submitted by the government consenting to the marriage. The Mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, conducted the civil marriage ceremony in the Beurs van Berlage on 2 February 2002. The church ceremony took place immediately afterwards at the Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam. The Reverend Carel ter Linden and Father Rafael Braun officiated.
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Princess Maxima and Willem-Alexander, the Prince of Orange
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The royal couple initially lived at Noordeinde 66, The Hague. In spring 2003, they moved to Eikenhorst on the De Horsten estate in Wassenaar.
Their first child, Princess Catharina-Amalia, the current Princess of Orange, was born on 7 December 2003. Their second child, Princess Alexia, was born on 26 June 2005, and their third child, Princess Ariane, on 10 April 2007. All three were born at Bronovo Hospital in The Hague.
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The Princess of Orange, Princess Alexia and Princess Ariane
(28 March 2012)
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On the 30 April 2013, Princess Maxima became Her Majesty Queen Máxima, Princess of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Mrs. van Amsberg
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King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima
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Information taken from
Dutch Royal Family Official Website
