Máxima should be queen, say MPs

A majority of MPs thinks princess Máxima should become queen when her husband prince Willem-Alexander becomes monarch.


Traditionally in the Netherlands while the wife of a king becomes queen, queens’ husbands remain princes.
Labour, the left-wing greens GroenLinks and pro-animal PvdD are opposed to making Máxima queen, arguing that neither queen Beatrix or Juliana’s consorts became king.

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