They have passed twenty years since when William Alexander of Holland asked the hand of Maxima Zorreguieta. In a scenario from tale. On February 19, 2001, the day he decided his fiancée was to become his wife, the then prince thought before teach her to ice skate in the backyard palazzo Huis ten Bosch, one of the royal residences in The Hague. After a couple of hours of lessons and not a few difficulties, the Argentine could not wait to go home to drink a cup of hot chocolate.
Instead he received from William – kneeling as per tradition, but on the ice – a engagement ring and a wedding proposal formulated, for the avoidance of doubt, in English.
Guglielmo, today ruler of the Netherlands, he wanted to remember that day by posting on the Instagram profile of the Dutch royals a photo in which repeats the scene with his wife queen consort of the romantic proposal: “Twenty years later, same place».
A fairytale place. On the other hand, even the place where they met for the first time in 1999 was not the most ordinary. The rulers in fact they met at the April Fair in Seville. To be precise, in the stand of the exclusive Seville Air Club, where a mutual friend, Cynthya Kauffmann, introduced the then prince to Argentina, who at the time was working as consultant for a financial company in Seville. The groom-to-be introduced himself simply as “Alexander,” remaining vague about his job as a crown prince. When she confessed, Maxima broke out at to laugh. He didn’t believe it.
The February 2, 2002 the wedding ad Amsterdam, cheered by the birth of three daughters: the princesses Catharina-Amalia, Alexia e Ariana d’Orange. Then on April 30, 2013, when her husband took the throne, Máxima became the only queen of Holland born outside the European continent. Sovereign of a kingdom that in addition to the Netherlands includes Curaçao, Aruba and St. Maarten.
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