HMS Princess Beatrix HMS Princess Beatrix HMS "Princess Beatrix" was a commando troop ship of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Built as a civilian passenger liner in 1939 by De Schelde at Vlissingen, she was named the MS "Prinses Beatrix", after Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, and operated by Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland (SMZ) (The Zealand Steamship Company) between Flushing and Harwich, along with her sister ship, MS "Koningin Emma". After fleeing to Britain after the German invasion in 1940, she was requisitioned by the British Ministry of War Transport, renamed HMS "Princess Beatrix" and converted to a troopship at Harland
Beatrix von Storch Prince of Wales, heir to the thrones of the Commonwealth realms, to which last crown she is also distantly in line in accordance with the Act of Settlement 1701. Her grandfather on her mother's side was Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, who served as finance minister under Adolf Hitler and was the last head of government of the Third Reich. Her cousin, Eilika of Oldenburg, is married to Georg von Habsburg, a son of Otto, the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary. Beatrix von Storch Beatrix Amelie Ehrengard Eilika von Storch ("born" Beatrix Amelie Ehrengard Eilika Herzogin von Oldenburg; 27 May