Beatrix
Beatrix (1938–), queen of the Netherlands. She became queen in 1980 when her mother, Queen Juliana, abdicated. Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard of Orange-Nassau was born at the Soestdijk Palace in Baarn, the eldest child of then-Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. From 1940 to 1945, while the Germans occupied the Netherlands, Beatrix lived with her mother in Canada. She attended the University of Leiden, 1956–61. Her marriage to Claus von Amsberg, a German diplomat, in 1966 caused protest among Dutch citizens still holding bitter memories of the German occupation. In 1981 she moved her family from Baarn to The Hague, the first time the royal family had lived there since 1938.