Máxima was granted Dutch citizenship by a royal decree on and now has dual citizenship: Argentine and Dutch. The couple announced their engagement on MaMáxima addressed the nation in Dutch (which at the time she only spoke to basic conversational extent) during the live televised broadcast. However, Baud also concluded that Zorreguieta was almost certainly aware of them in Baud’s view, it was highly unlikely that a cabinet minister would not have known about them. Baud determined that Máxima’s father had not been directly involved in any of the numerous atrocities that took place during that period. Zorreguieta claimed that, as a civilian, he was unaware of the Dirty War while he was a cabinet minister. At the request of the States General, Michiel Baud, a Dutch professor in Latin American studies, carried out an inquiry into the involvement of Zorreguieta in the Dirty War (roughly, 1974–83). Her father’s tenure as a minister took place during the beginning stages of the Dirty War, a period of repression that saw 10,000–30,000 people killed or disappeared during the seven-year military regime. The news of the couple’s relationship and eventual marriage plans caused controversy in the Netherlands, due to the involvement of Máxima’s father Jorge Zorreguieta as a cabinet minister during the National Reorganization Process, the most recent Argentinian dictatorship.
Their relationship apparently began in New York, but she did not meet his parents, Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus, for some time. They agreed to meet again two weeks later in New York, where Máxima was working for Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. She thought he was joking when he later told her that he was not only a prince, but the Prince of Orange and heir apparent to the Dutch throne. In an interview, they stated that he introduced himself only as “Alexander”, so that she did not know he was a prince. Máxima met Willem-Alexander in April 1999 in Seville, Spain, during the Seville Spring Fair. Her maternal great-grandfather was also from the landed gentry Domingo Carricart Etchart (1885-1953) was a landowner, politician, Director of the Banco Provincial de Buenos Aires, first mayor of González Chaves, and mayor of Tres Arroyos. Her father was a scion of the Zorreguieta family who had been landed gentry, professionals, regional politicians, and statesmen for generations. She is named after her paternal great-grandmother Máxima Bonorino González (1874–1965). She has two brothers, a sister (deceased), and three half-sisters by her father’s first wife, Marta López Gil. She is the daughter of Jorge Zorreguieta (1928–2017), who served as Secretary of Agriculture under General Jorge Rafael Videla during Argentina’s last civil-military dictatorship (1976–1983), and his second wife, María del Carmen Cerruti Carricart (born 1944).
Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
On April 30, 2013, she became the first queen consort of the Netherlands since Princess Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont (queen consort from 1879 to 1890) and the first Argentine-born queen consort in the history of the Netherlands. Her successor, Willem-Alexander, her eldest son, became the first king of the Netherlands in 123 years.Queen Máxima of the Netherlands (born Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti May 17, 1971) is the spouse of King Willem-Alexander. On April 30, 2013, Beatrix abdicated and resumed the title of princess. She also called aid to developing countries “a moral obligation,” adding that adapting more generous aid to each recipient country’s level of development goals eventually could broaden the entire global economy. “Personally,” she went on, “I am convinced that you will eventually serve your own interests best if you also heed Europe’s economic requirements.”īeatrix noted that each of the countries is “the largest single direct investor in the other” and that Dutch prosperity, as well as that of other European countries, depends on sound U.S. That meant not only a dialogue on military matters but also on economic solutions to the present “serious” recession, she said. You in America and we in our much more vulnerable Europe - together we must consider the questions confronting us, together seek the answers.” “Concerned as we are at the worsening situation in the world,” she added, “we regard it as essential that the transatlantic dialogue be intensified. “Nothing would seem to us more desirable than achieving a balanced, controlled reduction of arms on all sides, particularly a reduction in all those weapons that threaten to destroy civilization itself, indeed all life on this planet,” she said in near-flawless English. In a speech written for her by the Dutch government but which aides said also reflected her personal views, Beatrix, who was 44 years old at the time, called for global nuclear arms control.
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