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It's two down and waiting for the big one. Two princes of the Dutch royal family, nephews of Queen Beatrix, recently got married, but the main event is the expected announcement of the wedding of thirty-three-year-old Crown Prince Willem Alexander, the oldest son of Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus. Ever since it was revealed in the Dutch press, about a year ago, that the heir to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands had fallen in love with an Argentinean woman, speculations about the royal marriage have abounded. Not the least because the love affair of the prince of Orange with Maxima Zorreguieta, the daughter of a landowner from the Argentinean pampas, is full of both romance and politics.
For the first time, the Dutch government, constitutionally responsible for the royal family, officially recognized a relationship of Willem Alexander. Prime Minister Wim Kok acknowledged `the friendship' of the Dutch prince and Maxima, who at...