| Princess Christina | |||||
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 Princess Christina in 1968 | |||||
| Born | Princess Maria Christina of the Netherlands 18 February 1947 Soestdijk Palace, Baarn, Netherlands | ||||
| Died | 16 August 2019 (aged 72) Noordeinde Palace, The Hague, Netherlands | ||||
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| House | Orange-Nassau | ||||
| Father | Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld | ||||
| Mother | Juliana of the Netherlands | ||||
| Religion | Catholicism prev. Dutch Reformed | ||||
Princess Christina of the Netherlands (Maria Christina; 18 February 1947 – 16 August 2019)[1][2] was the youngest of four daughters of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. She taught singing in New York and was a long-term supporter of the Youth Music Foundation in the Netherlands. Born visually impaired, she worked to share her knowledge of dance and sound therapy with the blind.
She renounced her and her descendants' rights to the throne before marrying Cuban exile Jorge Guillermo in 1975, and converted to Catholicism in 1992. The couple had three children and built up an extensive art collection, before they divorced in 1996. Christina died of bone cancer in 2019.
- ^ Hunter, Brian (1 June 1992). The Statesman's Year-Book 1992–93. Macmillan. p. 992. ISBN 978-0-333-55836-2. Archived from the original on 31 December 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
- ^ Zaken, Ministerie van Algemene. "Prinses Christina". www.koninklijkhuis.nl. Archived from the original on 24 July 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2016.