page_title: Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
section_title: Interests and activities
hierarchical_section_title: Princess Margriet of the Netherlands / Interests and activities
caption_attribution_description: English: Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, Orange-Nassau and Lippe-Besterfield in Ottawa during the Ottawa Tulipfest in May 2002.
context_page_description: Princess Margriet of the Netherlands is the third daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard. As an aunt of the reigning monarch, King Willem-Alexander, she is a member of the Dutch Royal House and currently eighth and last in the line of succession to the throne.
  Princess Margriet has often represented the monarch at official or semi-official events. Some of these functions have taken her back to Canada, the country where she was born de facto, and to events organised by the Dutch merchant navy of which she is a patron.
context_section_description: Princess Margriet is particularly interested in health care and cultural causes. From 1987 to 2011 she was vice-president of the Dutch Red Cross, who set up the Princess Margriet Fund in her honour. She is a member of the board of the International Federation of National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
  From 1984 to 2007, Princess Margriet was president of the European Cultural Foundation, who set up the Princess Margriet Award for Cultural Diversity in acknowledgement of her work.
  She is a member of the honorary board of the International Paralympic Committee.
caption: Princess Margriet arrives in Ottawa to attend the Canadian Tulip Festival in May 2002.
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