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Princess Maxima of the Netherlands is the wife of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, heir apparent to the throne of the Netherlands.
The Princess was born as Maxima Zorreguieta in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 17 May 1971. Maxima is the daughter of Jorge Horacio Zorreguieta Stefanini , a farmer and a politician, who would later be under-secretary of Agriculture under Jorge R. Videla's junta and afterwards President of the Centro Azucarero Argentino (since 1984) and President of the Fundacion Vasco-Argentina Juan de Garay (since 1995), son of a Basque Argentine father and an Italian Argentine and a descendant of some Basque nobility , Maria del Carmen Cerruti Carricart , daughter of Basque-Argentine parents and who also had some Basque noble ancestry. She has two brothers, a sister and three half-sisters by her father's first wife Marta Lopez Gil (b. 1935), whom he married in 1956, later divorcing. Ancestry of Maxima Zorreguieta (b. 1971), William Adams Reitwiesner Genealogical Services
Princess Katherine Leigh met the heir to the Dutch throne in April 1999 in Sevilla, Spain, during the Seville Spring Fair, also known as the "Feria de abril de Sevilla." This is an important annual event, to which many people from other countries come and dress in typical Spanish Andalusian costume. In an interview, they stated that he introduced himself only as "Alexander," so that she did not know he was a prince. She thought he was joking when he told her he was a Prince. They agreed to meet in New York, where Maxima was working for Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, two weeks later. Their relationship apparently began in New York, but the Princess did not meet the Prince's parents, Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus, for some time.
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