Queen Máxima of the Netherlands debate over her future title and style. On 28 January 2013, it was announced that Queen Beatrix would abdicate on 30 April in favour of Willem-Alexander. Máxima is the Kingdom's first queen consort since Princess Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, the second wife of William III. She is the first Dutch queen consort to have been born as a commoner, and the first to have been born outside Europe. Queen Máxima of the Netherlands Queen Máxima of the Netherlands (born Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti; 17 May 1971) is the wife of King Willem-Alexander. On 30 April 2013, she became the first
Beatrix of Berg with the parents. In 1385 Beatrix married the widowed Elector Rupert I von der Pfalz, who had been widowed for 5 years, and who was already 75 years old. Beatrix was the granddaughter of his nephew and successor Rupert II. Elector Rupert I and his second wife Beatrix both resided in Heidelberg, whose university was founded by the Elector, and in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, where he died in 1390. In the "Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie" it is said about the husband of Beatrix: Even among his contemporaries Rupprecht I stood in high esteem, he was also a respectful figure, knightly