Queen Máxima of the Netherlands was born on May 17, 1971 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has been married to King Willem-Alexander since February 2, 2002. They have three children.
In 1999 she met her husband, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of the
Netherlands, at a party in Seville, Spain. She had heard a prince would
be there, but had no clue who it might be.
Worked as a investment banker for Deutsche Bank in New York.
Daughter of Jorge Zorreguieta, agriculture secretary in Argentina under
the Videla regime
Daughter of Jorge Horacio Zorreguieta Stefanini (b. 1928) and María del Carmen Cerruti Carricart (b. 1944).
Educated at the English-style Northlands School in Buenos Aires, she
received a bilingual baccalaureat in 1988, going on to study economics
at the Catholic University of Argentina.