Queen Maxima of the Netherlands is glamorous in a plum frock (2024)

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Queen Maxima of the Netherlands is glamorous in a plum frock? ›

Queen Maxima of the Netherlands is glamorous in a plum frock as she visits a cleaning industry rental service in Rotterdam. Queen Maxima of the Netherlands wowed in a purple frock as she visited a cleaning industry rental service in Rotterdam, under her role with the Dutch Committee for Entrepreneurship.

Maxima's readiness to learn the Dutch language helped her win popularity with the country when she married Willem-Alexander. Dutch is her third language: she is also fluent in Spanish and English, and can speak French at a conversational level.

The Queen has also spoken in the past about learning the Dutch language. She began taking Dutch lessons while living in New York and dating Willem-Alexander. She also travelled around the Netherlands to learn about the country with a friend and solo. Queen Maxima is now fluent in Dutch, as her third language.

The Dutch royal met the Argentinian-born Maxima Zorreguieta at the spring fair in April 1999, where the future monarch introduced himself simply as "Alexander." Maxima, who then working in banking in New York, reportedly didn't believe him when he later revealed his royal identity.

HELLO! Share this: The newgeneration of European queens and princesses are standing tall, but but who takes the crown for the tallest of them all? We can reveal the winner is Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, who reigns at a statuesque at 5ft 8in.

Catharina-Amalia was born at 5:01 p.m on 7 December 2003 at HMC Bronovo in The Hague, Netherlands. She weighed 7 pounds 3 ounces and measured 20 1/2 inches long.

Queen Máxima is married to King Willem-Alexander. The royal couple have three daughters, Princess Catharina-Amalia (the Princess of Orange), Princess Alexia and Princess Ariane.

While the reality of King George III and Queen Charlotte does not exactly match the show, recorded history does tell us that they were two people who loved each other very much, had 15 children together, and even slept in the same bed when that was quite outside the norm for their class.

Queen Maxima's favoured diet can be quite strict, however, it reportedly allowed her to shed 10 kilos.

Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix was Queen of the Netherlands for 33 years, from 1980 to 2013. On 30 April 2013, she was succeeded by her eldest son, King Willem-Alexander. Princess Beatrix was married to Prince Claus of the Netherlands.

Who was the tallest queen in the world? ›

The tallest queens were Mary, Queen of Scots and Mary II of England and Scotland, who were both 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m).

The Netherlands leads with an average height of 170.36 cm (5 feet 7.07 inches), followed closely by Montenegro at 169.96 cm (5 feet 6.91 inches). Globally, women stand at an average height of 160.95 cm, ranging from a minimum of 150.91 cm to a maximum of 170.36 cm.

The future King of England, Prince William, is the tallest member of the royal family and will be the second tallest King in 300 years. The tallest British monarch was Edward IV at 6 ft 4½ in (194cm). When suited and booted in armour, the King would have stood at roughly 6 ft 7 in.

While other memebers are fluent in several other languages, the Queen can speak two languages - English and French.

The phrase is not about the Queen or any British Monarch. It is simply a way of defining the mother tongue of the nation that is England. If you are an ENGLISH citizen and speak ENGLISH you are speaking 'the Queen's English'.