Today May 18th 2014 is the birthday of H.M. Queen Maxima of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Princess of Orange-Nassau. She is the first Queen Consort of the Netherlands since 1890.
Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 17 May 1971. Queen Máxima is the daughter ofJorge Zorreguieta (born 1928) and his second wife, María del Carmen Cerruti Carricart (born 1944). She has two brothers, a sister and three half-sisters by her father's first wife, Marta López Gil. She is named after her paternal great-grandmother Máxima Bonorino Gonzalez (1874–1965), whose mother Máxima González y de Islas belonged to the family of Justo José de Urquiza († 1870), the first Constitutional President of Argentina.
She studied at Northlands School in Argentina and worked as an investment banker before graduating with a degree inEconomics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in 1995. She subsequently worked for large international finance companies in Argentina, New York, and Brussels.
Through her father, she is a descendant of King Afonso III of Portugal, and other noble families of the Iberian Peninsula.
Queen Maxima married HRH The Princess of Orange-Nassau on February 2nd 2002 and has had three children to date being the Princess of Orange, Princess Alexia of the Netherlands and Princess Ariane of the Netherlands.
Below is a picture of her coat of arms and her official standard.
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.
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