Beatrix of the Netherlands


HRH Princess Margriet Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven

Beatrix was born Princess Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard of the Netherlands, Princess of OrangeNassau, Princess of LippeBiesterfeld, onJanuary 1938 at the Soestdijk Palace in Baarn, Netherlands. She is the first child of Princess Juliana of the Netherlands and German aristocrat Prince Bernhard of LippeBiesterfeld. Beatrix was baptized onMay 1938 in the Great Church in The Hague. Her five godparents were King Leopold III of the Belgians Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone Elisabeth, Princess of ErbachSchnberg Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg and Countess Allene de Kotzebue. Beatrixs middle names are the first names of her maternal grandmother, the then reigning Queen Wilhelmina, and her paternal grandmother, Armgard of SierstorpffCramm.

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