This Tuesday, December 7, 2021 is an important day for the royal family of the Netherlands: the Princess Catharina-Amalia is celebrating its 18th birthday. The day after her birthday, the eldest daughter of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima will be inducted into the Council of State in the ballroom of Kneuterdijk Palace in The Hague. In the meantime, new official portraits of the Princess of Orange have been unveiled.
In the photos, taken at Huis ten Bosch Palace in The Hague earlier this fall, the future sovereign poses alone, between light and shadow. Last June, the princess graduated from high school – with honors – from Gymnasium Sorghvliet, a renowned school in The Hague. Before starting her higher education at the start of the next school year, she is currently taking a sabbatical year. However, the one who has given up her comfortable annual endowment does not forget her royal obligations on the occasion of her 18th birthday.
Recently, the love life of Princess Amalia has found itself in the midst of heated rumors. In Argentina, the country of origin of his mother Queen Maxima, he was loaned a secret romance with Prince Gabriel of Belgium (the second child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde) after publication of an unreliable photo. At the same time, as detailed Paris Match, because she organized a Pride Day in her class and chose an openly lesbian novelist to write her biography, it was suggested that the Princess of Orange would be attracted to girls rather than boys … Rumors that the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte took the trouble to comment, assuring that the future Queen of the Netherlands would have every right to marry a person of the same sex, since same-sex marriage is allowed in the country.
I didn’t only grow up with ‘uncle and aunt’
Princess Amalia herself cut these rumors short in a biography dedicated to her, on the occasion of her 18th birthday. A tradition for the royal family of the Netherlands, since his father, King Willem-Alexander and his grandmother, the former Queen Beatrix, had also been entitled to their anniversary biography. In the work simply titled Amalia, extracts of which were relayed by the magazine Point of view of December 1, the writer Claudia de Breij writes: “Romantic as she is, she likes boys not to be rough and to be gallant. She wants to get married and would like to have children. Later. So much later. “In the meantime, the big sister of Princesses Alexia and Ariane (16 and 14 years old) showed the writer the cream carriage that she has already chosen for her future nuptials.
What if the chosen one of his heart does not please his subjects or Parliament? “If this is the man who supports me, whom I love, with whom I want to spend my life, and Parliament does not give his consent, well, we will have to see what I do. I would be unable to give the best for our country“, she replied, with a sincerity and a pragmatism which already make her such a modern future sovereign.
Regarding lesbian unions within the royal family, she commented humorously: “So, more women will be able to wear tiaras!“More seriously, the one who confided in being followed by a shrink since childhood added:”I don’t think that would have been a big deal. Certainly not in my family. My parents also have a lot of different friends, so I didn’t only grow up with ‘uncle and aunt’, I also have ‘aunt and aunt’.“For sure, the future sovereign of the Netherlands will be in tune with her time!