Hello! Magazine UK – 12 August 2019

S

hehasshoneas theQueenof

theNetherlandsforsixyears,

butQueenMáximahasbeena

devotedmotherformuchlonger.

Inthesenewlyreleasedphotos

ofthefamily,the48-year-oldwife

ofKingWillem-Alexanderlooks

thepictureofhappinessasshe

poseswithherhusbandandtheir

three daughters– Princesses

Catharina-Amalia,15,Alexia,14,

andAriane, 12 – infrontoftheir

stunningpalatialhome.

The17th-centuryHuisTen

Bosch,whichtranslatesasHouse

intheWoods,is locatedonthe

outskirtsofTheHagueinthe

Hague forest.It isabout a

30-minutedrivefromthefamily’s

formerhome,VillaDeEikenhorst

inthetownofWassenaar,where

theylivedfor 15 years.

Dutchlawrequiresthatthe

headofstatelivesatHuisTen

Bosch– andafterfiveyearsof

renovationstheyhavefinally

movedin.In2014,a year

after King Willem’s

The family have finally

moved intothe palatial

home afterfive years

of refurbishments

s

TheKingandQueen

poseforanofficial

statephotoin 2018

tomarkthefifth

anniversaryofthe

King’sascensionto

thethrone

King Willem-Alexander and

Queen Máxima pose with

their daughters (from left)

Princesses Catharina-Amalia,

Ariane and Alexia outside

their new home. Rumour has

it that the palace pond is

where Willem proposed to

Máxima on the ice in 2001

OVERJOYED AS THEY MOVE INTO THEIR NEW HOME

AND HER FAMILY GIVE A RARE GLIMPSE

INTO ROYAL LIFE IN THE PALACE

QUEEN MAXIMA

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