Queen Maxima is the wife of King Willem-Alexander. She was born on 17 May 1971 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She became Dutch Queen on 30 April 2013. She is the daughter of Jorge Zorreguieta and his second wife, Maria del Carmen Cerruti Carricart. She has two brothers, a sister and three half-sisters by her father's first wife, Marta Lopez Gil.
Queen Maxima studied at Northlands School in Argentina and worked as an investment banker before graduating with a degree in Economics from the Universidad Catolica Argentina in 1995. She subsequently worked for large international finance companies in Argentina, New York and Brussels.
Queen Maxima met King Willem-Alexander, who was at the time the Prince of Orange, in April 1999 in Seville Spain, during the Seville Spring Fair. The couple announced their engagement on 30 March 2001. Queen Maxima was granted Dutch citizenship by Royal Decree on 17 May 2001 and now has dual citizenship; Argentine and Dutch.
Queen Maxima and King Willem-Alexander were married on 2 February 2002 in a civil ceremony in the Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, which was then followed by a religious ceremony at Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk.
The couple has three daughters:
- The Princess of Orange Catharina - Amalia Beatrix Carmen Victoria born 7 December 2003
- Princess Alexia Juliana Marcela Laurentien of the Netherlands born 26 June 2005
- Princess Ariane Willhelmina Maxima Ines of the Netherlands, born April 2007
Queen Maxima and her husband King Willem-Alexander and their daughters
Queen Maxima and her husband King Willem-Alexander and their daughters
Queen Maxima and her daughters
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