Princess Ariane of the Netherlands

Princess Ariane
Princess Ariane in 2014
Born	(2007-04-10) 10 April 2007 Bronovo Hospital, The Hague, Netherlands
Full name Ariane Wilhelmina Máxima Inés
House	Orange-Nassau
Father	Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
Mother	Máxima Zorreguieta

Dutch Royal Family
HM The King * HM The Queen * HRH The Princess of Orange * HRH Princess Alexia * HRH Princess Ariane * HRH Princess Beatrix * HRH Princess Mabel Countess Luana Countess Zaria HRH Prince Constantijn * HRH Princess Laurentien * Countess Eloise Count Claus-Casimir Countess Leonore Extended royal family HRH Princess Irene HRH The Duke of Parma HRH The Duchess of Parma HRH The Hereditary Prince of Parma HRH Princess Luisa of Bourbon-Parma HRH Princess Cecilia of Bourbon-Parma HRH The Countess of Colorno Tjalling Siebe ten Cate Julia ten Cate Paola ten Cate HRH The Count of Bardi HRH The Countess of Bardi HRH Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma HRH Princess Gloria of Bourbon-Parma HRH The Marchioness of Sala Albert Brenninkmeijer Alaïa-Maria Brenninkmeijer Xavier Brenninkmeijer HRH Princess Margriet * Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven * HH Prince Maurits HH Princess Marilène Anna van Lippe-Biesterfeld van Vollenhoven Lucas van Lippe-Biesterfeld van Vollenhoven Felicia van Lippe-Biesterfeld van Vollenhoven HH Prince Bernhard HH Princess Annette Isabella van Vollenhoven Samuel van Vollenhoven Benjamin van Vollenhoven HH Prince Pieter-Christiaan HH Princess Anita Emma van Vollenhoven Pieter van Vollenhoven HH Prince Floris HH Princess Aimée Magali van Vollenhoven Eliane van Vollenhoven Willem van Vollenhoven HRH Princess Christina Bernardo Guillermo Eva Guillermo Isabel Christina Guillermo Julián Jorge Guillermo Nicolás Guillermo Juliana Guillermo * Member of the Dutch royal house

Princess Ariane of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau (Ariane Wilhelmina Máxima Inés; born 10 April 2007) is the third and youngest daughter of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima. Princess Ariane is member of the Dutch Royal House and currently third in the line of succession to the Dutch throne.^[1]

Life

Princess Ariane was born in the Bronovo Hospital in The Hague at 21:56 local time^[2] on 10 April 2007 as the third child and third daughter of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands.^[3] Prime Minister Balkenende addressed the nation shortly afterwards and said both mother and child were healthy and doing well.^[4] The next morning, Her father appeared on television with his new daughter.^[5] The names of the baby were announced on 13 April, when the birth was registered in The Hague.^[6]

Princess Ariane was baptised in the Abbey Church in The Hague on 20 October 2007. Vicar Deodaat van der Boon used water from the Jordan River to baptize the princess, who was wearing the christening gown that Princess Wilhelmina first wore in 1880.^[7] Over 850 guests were invited to attend, including Princess Máxima's parents and Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende. Her godparents are Valeria Delger, Inés Zorreguieta, Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume of Luxembourg, Tijo Baron Collot d’Escury, and Anton Friling.^[8]

Princess Ariane has two elder sisters, the princesses Catharina-Amalia and Alexia. She speaks Dutch, English and some Spanish.^[9]

Hospitalisation

On 2 May 2007, Princess Ariane was admitted to the Leiden University medical centre with a suspected lung infection.^[10] She was released from the hospital on 5 May 2007 after treatment for her bacterial and viral infection.^[11] On 13 June 2007, Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Máxima released a thank you note "not only for the congratulations upon Ariane's birth but also for the best wishes they received upon her hospitalisation" and released a third official picture with their newborn daughter. The couple reportedly received over 30,000 letters of well-wishers.^[12] On 8 October 2009, Princess Ariane was again admitted to a hospital, in which she had to stay for one night, due to a respiratory infection.^[13]

Titles, styles and arms

Ariane's full title and style is: Her Royal Highness Princess Ariane of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau.^[14] (Dutch: Hare Koninklijke Hoogheid Ariane Wilhelmina Máxima Inés, Prinses der Nederlanden, Prinses van Oranje-Nassau).

Arms of Princess Ariane of the Netherlands

Notes Princess Ariane uses the same coat of arms as her sisters, Princess Catharina-Amalia and Princess Alexia.[16] 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. Symbolism The first and fourth quarters are the coat of arms of the Netherlands, based on the coat of arms of the House of Nassau.[16] The second and third quarters are the coat of arms of the Prince of Orange.[16] In the center is the coat of arms of the Zorreguieta family.[16]

Ancestry

References

External links

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