page_title: Queen Máxima of the Netherlands
section_title: Marriage and family
hierarchical_section_title: Queen Máxima of the Netherlands / Marriage and family
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Huwelijksportret van de Prins van Oranje en Prinses Máxima.
context_page_description: Máxima is the spouse of King Willem-Alexander. On 30 April 2013, she became the first queen consort of the Netherlands since Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont and the first Argentine-born queen consort in the history of the Netherlands.
context_section_description: The couple announced their engagement on 30 March 2001; Máxima addressed the nation in Dutch (which at the time she only spoke to basic conversational extent) during the live televised broadcast. Máxima was granted Dutch citizenship by a royal decree on 17 May 2001 and now has dual citizenship: Argentine and Dutch.  The engagement was formally approved by the States General later that year—a necessary step for Willem-Alexander to remain in line to the throne.
  Máxima and Willem-Alexander were married on 2 February 2002 in a civil ceremony in the Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, which was then followed by a religious ceremony at Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk ("New Church"). She remained a Roman Catholic after her marriage.
  Máxima's parents were not present at the wedding; her father was told he could not attend due to his role as a cabinet minister during the National Reorganization Process, and her mother chose not to attend without her husband.
caption: The royal wedding, February 2002
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