Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands

Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau (given names: "Catharina-Amalia Beatrix Carmen Victoria"; born December 07, 2003, The Hague, the Netherlands), is the first child of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, the heir apparent to the throne of the Netherlands, and Princess Máxima of the Netherlands, his spouse.

Life

Princess Catharina-Amalia was born in the Bronovo Hospital in The Hague. [http://www.godutch.com/windmill/newsItem.asp?id=503 Newly-born Princess Catharina-Amalia second in line for Dutch throne » The Windmill news articles » goDutch ] ] She lives with her parents and her younger sisters Alexia and Ariane at Villa Eikenhorst on the royal estate, "De Horsten", in Wassenaar. On June 12, 2004 [ [http://www.mywire.com/pubs/AFP/2004/06/12/487000?extID=10051 MyWire | AFP: Dutch Princess Catharina-Amalia, daughter of Crown Prince, baptised ] ] she was baptised by Reverend Carel ter Linden in the Grote, or St. Jacob's, Church in The Hague. Her godparents are her uncle Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, Marc ter Haar (her father's friend), Herman-Diederik Tjeenk Willink (Vice-president of the Council of State), Samantha van Welderen Baroness Rengers-Deane (her mother's friend) and her uncle Martín Zorreguieta.

Names

The official origins of her given names:

*Catharina has been speculated to be after Henriëtte Catharina van Nassau
*Amalia is after Amalia of Solms-Braunfels
*Beatrix is after her paternal grandmother Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
*Carmen is in honour of her maternal grandmother
*Victoria is after her godmother Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden

All children of Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Máxima will bear the style "Royal Highness" and titles "Prince (Princess) of the Netherlands" and "Prince (Princess) of Orange-Nassau" (Royal Decree 25 January 2002, nr. 41).

Following the tradition, Princess Catharina-Amalia is styled as "The Hereditary Princess of Orange" (In Dutch: "De Erfprinses van Oranje"); she will become the Princess of Orange when her father accedes to the throne.

uccession to the Throne

She is second in line to the Dutch throne, and because the Netherlands is under full lineal primogeniture she will not be replaced in the line of succession by any future children of her parents. So, providing her father and grandmother, the Queen, predecease her or abdicate correspondingly, and she does not marry without permission of Parliament, she will become Queen of the Netherlands. She is in the line of succession to the British Throne as she is a direct descendent of Duchess Augusta of Brunswick, elder sister of King George III. In accordance with the British Act of Settlement 1701, her father was removed from the line of succession after he married a Roman Catholic.

Ancestry

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1= 1. Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands
2= 2. Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange
3= 3. Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti
4= 4. Claus von Amsberg
5= 5. Beatrix of the Netherlands
6= 6. Jorge Horacio Zorreguieta Stefanini
7= 7. Maria del Carmen Cerruti Carricart
8= 8. Klaus Felix von Amsberg
9= 9. Julie von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen
10= 10. Bernhard, Prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld
11= 11. Juliana of the Netherlands
12= 12. Juan António Zorreguieta y Bonorino
13= 13. Cesina Stefanini
14= 14. Giorgio Cerruti
15= 15. Maria del Carmen Carricart Fieza
16= 16. Wilhelm von Amsberg
17= 17. Elise von Vieregge
18= 18. George von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen
19= 19. Gabriele von dem Bussche-Ippenburg
20= 20. Prince Bernhard of Lippe
21= 21. Armgard of Sierstorpff-Cramm
22= 22. Hendrik of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
23= 23. Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
24= 24. Amadeo Zorreguieta Hernández
25= 25. Máxima Blanca Bonorino Gonzalez
26= 26. Oreste Stefanini
27= 27. Tullia Borella
28= 28. Santiago Anastasio Cerruti
29= 29. Maria de las Mercedes Sautu Martinez
30= 30. Domingo Carricart Etchart
31= 31. Carmen Fieza Rodriguez

References

External links

* [http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/english/content.jsp?objectid=18203 Profile at the Dutch Royal House website]