The couple's romance blossomed quickly, and less than two years after their first meeting, the pair announced their engagement. "I would tell them something different every time, but at some point there was nothing for it than to say: 'He's the Prince of the Netherlands'," Hello! Magazine has quoted the now-Queen as saying. In fact, for a long time Maxima's parents didn't even know the man she was dating in the early 2000s was Dutch royalty. Maxima Zorreguieta, second right, visits a rural fair in Buenos Aires with her father, Jorge Zorreguieta, right, in this August 1979 photo.
However, there's no evidence to prove the theory, and the royals have never addressed the rumour. RELATED: Queen Maxima, King Willem-Alexander recreate their proposalīernhard was consort to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander's grandmother, and allegedly organised with controversial figure Jorge Zorreguieta to set up his royal grandson with Jorge's daughter. It's said the 'Big Apple' is where their relationship began, but according to some sources, their original meeting in Seville wasn't entirely by chance.Įuro Channel suggests Willem-Alexander's grandfather, Prince Bernhard, had secretly arranged the meeting with the help of Maxima's father.
Dutch Crown Prince Willem Alexander and his Argentinian fiance Maxima Zorreguieta hold a flower as they leave the Royal Palace in The Hague after they announced their engagement. The couple arranged to meet in New York, where Maxima was working at a bank, just a few weeks later.
But it wasn't a joke, and neither was their romance.
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