Princess Alexia of the Netherlands

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Princess Alexia
File:2019 Annual winter photocall with the Dutch Royal Family in Lech, Austria - 04.jpg
Alexia in 2019
Born (2005-06-26) 26 June 2005 (age 20)
The Hague, Netherlands
Names
Alexia Juliana Marcela Laurentien
HouseOrange-Nassau (official)
Amsberg (agnatic)
FatherWillem-Alexander of the Netherlands
MotherMáxima Zorreguieta
Education
Alma mater
Dutch royal family
File:Royal coat of arms of the Netherlands.svg

Princess Beatrix*

Extended family
Princess Irene

Princess Margriet*
Pieter van Vollenhoven*

  • Bernardo Guillermo
    Eva Guillermo
  • Nicolás Guillermo
  • 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)[1] is the second daughter of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima. Princess Alexia is a member of the Dutch royal house and second in the line of succession to the Dutch throne.[2]

Life

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Princess Alexia was born on 26 June 2005 at HMC Bronovo in The Hague as the second child of Willem-Alexander, then Prince of Orange, and his wife, Máxima.[3] The infant's paternal uncle Prince Friso and maternal uncle Juan Zorreguieta, the then Duchess of Brabant Queen Mathilde of Belgium, 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 had also been a student.[7][8] She graduated, with an International Baccalaureate Diploma, in 2023.[9]

In 2024, it was announced that Alexia would start a bachelor's degree in science and engineering for social change at the Faculty of Engineering, University College London (UCL) at the end of September 2024. In November 2024, Alexia had transferred to a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at UCL's Faculty of Engineering.

She speaks Dutch, English, and Spanish.[10]

Hospitalization

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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.[11]

Titles, styles, honours and arms

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Alexia's full title and style is "Her Royal Highness Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau".

Honours

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See also: List of honours of the Dutch royal family by country
Coat of arms of Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
File:Coat of Arms of the children of Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands.svg
Notes
Princess Alexia uses the same coat of arms as her sisters, Princess Catharina-Amalia, the Princess of Orange; and Princess Ariane.[13]
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
File:Prinses Amalia en zussen vlag.svg 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.[14]
Symbolism
File:Arms of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.svg The first and fourth quarters are the coat of arms of the Netherlands, based on the coat of arms of the House of Nassau.[13]
File:Arms of the Principality of Orange.svg The second and third quarters are the coat of arms of the Prince of Orange.[13]
File:Arms of the Zorreguieta Family.svg In the center is the coat of arms of the Zorreguieta family.[13]

References

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