Princess Alexia of the Netherlands

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Princess Alexia
Máxima Zorreguieta
Dutch royal family

Princess Beatrix *

Extended family
Princess Irene

Princess Margriet *
Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven *

  • Mr Bernardo Guillermo
    Mrs Eva Guillermo
  • Mr Nicolás Guillermo
  • Miss Juliana Guillermo
* Member of the Dutch royal house

Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau (Alexia Juliana Marcela Laurentien; born 26 June 2005)

line of succession to the Dutch throne.[2]

Life

Princess Alexia was born on 26 June 2005 at HMC Bronovo in

Jonkvrouw Alexandra Jankovich de Jeszenice, and Jonkheer Frans Ferdinand de Beaufort stood as godparents at baptism by Reverend Deodaat van der Boon on 19 November 2005 in the Dorpskerk in Wassenaar.[4]

Princess Alexia attended the public primary school Bloemcampschool in Wassenaar.[5] She attended secondary school at the Christelijk Gymnasium Sorghvliet in The Hague from 2017 to 2021.[4][6] Beginning in August 2021, she continued her secondary education at the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales, where her father was also a student.[7][8] She graduated, having passed the International Baccalaureat, in 2023.[9] Alexia speaks Dutch, English, and Spanish.[10]

Alexia's friend Jan de Beaufort, son of her godfather, died in 2022 at age 19.[11][12]

Hospitalization

In February 2016, while on a skiing holiday with her family in Austria, Princess Alexia broke her right femur. She was transported via helicopter to a local hospital and had surgery to repair the injury. After a few days in the hospital she was released and required the use of crutches while she healed.[13] Updates on Princess Alexia's condition were posted on the official website of the Dutch monarchy. The accident occurred in the same area as the avalanche which resulted in eventually fatal injuries to her paternal uncle and godfather, Prince Friso, in February 2012.

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Alexia's full title and style is "

Her Royal Highness
Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau".

Honours

See also: List of honours of the Dutch royal family by country
Coat of arms of Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
Notes
Princess Alexia uses the same coat of arms as her sisters, Princess Catharina-Amalia, the Princess of Orange; and Princess Ariane.[15]
Escutcheon
Quarterly: I and IV azure billety or, a lion with coronet also or armed and langued gules, holding in his dexter paw a sword argent hilted or, and in his sinister seven arrows argent pointed and bound together or, which is of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; II and III or, a horn azure opened and bound gules, which is of the first House of Orange; an inescutcheon or bearing a castle of three towers gules flanked on each side by a poplar tree au naturel, and a river azure flowing from the base, ondoyant to the gate of the castle, which is of the house of Zorreguieta in Argentina.
Banner
As Princess, Alexia uses a swallow-tailed flag, with the Royal standard colours and her paternal arms (the horn of Orange) in the upper hoist and her maternal arms (the tower of Zorreguieta) in the lower hoist. The arms of the Netherlands (which originates from Nassau) without the insignia of the Order of Willem within an orange circle.[16]
Symbolism
Zorreguieta family.[15]

References

  1. ^ "Princess of the Netherlands". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  2. Royal-House.nl
    .
  3. Het Koninklijk Huis. 31 August 2005. Archived from the original
    on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  4. ^
    Royal-House.nl. Archived
    from the original on 10 August 2017. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  5. Hellomagazine.com. 24 August 2015. Archived
    from the original on 3 December 2020. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Ook prinses Alexia naar Haags gymnasium Sorghvliet". nos.nl (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 25 December 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  7. Royal-House.nl. Archived
    from the original on 24 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Dutch king-in-waiting congratulated by Atlantic College". BBC News. 1 February 2013. Archived from the original on 24 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  9. ^ "Princess Alexia of the Netherlands Celebrates Graduation with a Dutch Tradition Involving Her School Bag". People Magazine. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
  10. ^ "The children of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima". Archived from the original on 4 February 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  11. Hola.com
    . 17 May 2022.
  12. MSN.com
    . 21 December 2022.
  13. Hellomagazine.com. 2 March 2016. Archived
    from the original on 28 April 2021. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
  14. ^ a b "Prinses Alexia 18 jaar". Het Koninklijk Huis (in Dutch). 26 June 2023. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  15. ^
    Dutch Royal House
    . Retrieved on 2013-05-06.
  16. ^ "Besluit van 24 november 2021, houdende vaststelling van een onderscheidingsvlag voor Hare Koninklijke Hoogheid Prinses Catharina-Amalia en haar zusters". 10 May 2022.

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