Beatrix of the Netherlands

Beatrix (Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard) (Baarn, 31 January 1938 – ) is Queen of the Kingdom of The Netherlands. She was coronated on 30 April 1980 when she succeeded her mother, Queen Juliana, who abdicated on the same day.

Biography
Princess Beatrix was born as Prinses Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard der Nederlanden, van Oranje-Nassau en van Lippe-Biesterfeld of the on 31 January, 1938 at the Soestdijk Palace in Baarn, the Netherlands. Beatrix was the first child of princess Juliana der Nederlanden (the later Queen) en Prince Bernhard van Lippe-Biesterfeld. Beatrix has three sisters Irene van Lippe-Biesterfeld (1939), Margriet der Nederlanden (1943) en Christina der Nederlanden (1947).

After the German invasion of May 1940, Juliana, Beatrix and Irene went into exile in Canada, where they would stay during the remaining part of World War II. Prince Bernhard stayed for the largest part of the war with his mother in law, Wilhelmina der Nederlanden, who was then Queen-in-exile of the country. In the summer of 1945 the family returned to the Soestdijk Palace (together with Margriet, who was born in Canada in 1943).