regent birth_date signature reign father house coronation spouse image name caption predecessor succession birth_place issue successor mother religion article_title
'' wim kok jan peter balkenende mark rutte see list '' dries van agt ruud lubbers 31 january 1938 beatrix of the netherlands signature.svg 30 april 1980 -- 30 april 2013 prince bernhard of lippe-biesterfeld house -lrb- agnatic -rrb- of orange-nassau -lrb- official -rrb- house of lippe 30 april 1980 claus his death -rrb- von amsberg -lrb- m. 1966 -- 2002 ; koningin beatrix in vries.jpg beatrix beatrix in 2008 juliana queen of the netherlands soestdijk palace , baarn , netherlands king willem-alexander prince friso prince constantijn willem-alexander queen juliana of the netherlands reformed -lrb- protestant church -rrb- beatrix of the netherlands

beatrix of the netherlands

she attended a public primary school in canada during world war ii , and then finished her primary and secondary education in the netherlands in the post war period .
in 1961 , she received her law degree from leiden university .
in 1966 , beatrix married claus von amsberg , a german diplomat , with whom she had three children : willem-alexander , king of the netherlands -lrb- b. 1967 -rrb- , prince friso -lrb- 1968-2013 -rrb- and prince constantijn -lrb- b. 1969 -rrb- .
prince claus died in 2002 .
at the time of her abdication , queen beatrix was the oldest reigning monarch of the netherlands .
beatrix 's reign saw the country 's caribbean possessions reshaped with aruba 's secession and becoming its own constituent country within the kingdom in 1986 as well as the subsequent antillean dissolution in 2010 , which created the new special municipalities of bonaire , sint eustatius , and saba , and the two new constituent countries of curaçao and sint maarten .
on koninginnedag -lrb- `` queen 's day '' -rrb- , 30 april 2013 , beatrix abdicated in favour of her eldest son willem-alexander .
he is the first king of the netherlands in 123 years .
