Queen Máxima of the Netherlands

Máxima
Formal portrait, 2015
Queen consort of the Netherlands
Tenure30 April 2013 – present
BornMáxima Zorreguieta
(1971-05-17) 17 May 1971
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Spouse
(m. 2002)
Issue
FatherJorge Zorreguieta
MotherMaría del Carmen Cerruti
ReligionRoman Catholicism

Máxima (born Máxima Zorreguieta on 17 May 1971) is Queen of the Netherlands as the wife of King Willem-Alexander.

Argentine by birth, she worked in finance when she met Willem-Alexander, eldest son and heir apparent of Queen Beatrix, in 1999. They married in 2002, and became king and queen on the abdication of her mother-in-law on 30 April 2013. Máxima has promoted social integration of immigrants, LGBTQ rights, and financial inclusion. She and Willem-Alexander have three daughters, Princesses Catharina-Amalia, Alexia, and Ariane, who are first, second, and third, respectively, in the line of succession.