People that have married in to Royal Families since 1800.
Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti
Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti is the wife of King Willem-Alexander. On 30 April 2013, she became the first queen consort of The Netherlands since Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont.
Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti was born on 17 May 1971 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Her parents Jorge Zorreguieta and Maria del Carmen Cerruit Carricart also had two sons and another daughter, and Maxima also has three half sisters from her father’s first marriage.
Maxima studied while working as an investment banker and in 1995, she graduated with a degree in Economics from the Pontificial Catholic University of Argentina.
Maxima’s expertise soon allowed her to work across the world including Argentina, Brussels and New York. However it would be in Spain, in 1999, when she would meet a handsome man who introduced himself as “Alexander”.
The pair soon hit it off, and agreed to meet two weeks later in New York.
Maxima later revealed that she thought the prince was joking when he revealed he was a member of the Dutch Royal Family.
Maxima kept her new boyfriend’s identity hidden from her family for some time.
“I would tell them something different (about Willem-Alexander) every time but at some point there was nothing for it than to say: ‘He’s the Prince of the Netherlands.’”
In March 2001 Willem-Alexander and Maxima announced their engagement.
The news was met with some controversy in the Netherlands due to Maxima’s father Jorge’s position as an official of the Argentine junta in the 1970s, during the country’s brutal military dictatorship. As a result Maxima made the hard decision not to invite her parents to her wedding.
A year later, on the 2nd February 2002 they married in a civil ceremony in the Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, which was then followed by a religious ceremony at Amsterdam’s Nieuwe Kerk (“New Church”). She remained a Roman Catholic after her marriage
Maxima soon embraced Dutch culture and moved to the Netherlands, making learning the language a top priority. This soon won her many admirers, and her relaxed approach impressed people further.
Despite having dual Argentine and Dutch citizenship, however, the royal explained she would not be losing her native identity. Speaking in an interview, she said: “I am Latin and I will continue being Latin. I dance, I sing and I will keep on dancing and singing.” When asked if Willem-Alexander joined in the fun, she replied: “I keep trying to push him. His hips are a little rigid.”
In April 2013 Maxima became the first Dutch queen consort since 1890 as her husband became King Willem-Alexander, following his mother Queen Beatrix’s abdication.
Ever since first settling into her role as a royal Maxima has continuously won the praise of her nation. “She is exotic, she has passion and sparkle and flamboyance,” Dutch historian Henk the Velde explained, ahead of Willem-Alexander’s investiture. “We love her for that, people can feel the authenticity.”
The popular Queen has also become one of the first royals around the world to support gay rights, and one of her first appearances as Queen included an appearance at a two-day international gay rights summit in The Hague.
Her financial expertise has earned her an appointment as the U.N. secretary-general’s special advocate for inclusive finance for development, in which she promotes universal access to credit. She serves a similar role as honorary chairwoman of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion.
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