The ingredients are all there: the love story between the beautiful and blonde Argentine with the Dutch prince, the couple’s ascension to the throne in which the dark past of her father (not invited to the wedding) emerges, three beautiful daughters, a career in finance and then as queen consort the many charitable works. In short, Holland has its Diana, without the pain, the betrayals and the premature death. Perfect for aa tv series, Maxina, on air from tonight on Rai 1, based on book Homeland, the first years of Máxima Zorreguieta by Dutch journalist and writer Marcia Luyten which focuses on the love story of the Argentine woman with the prince later king Willem-Alexander.
Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti was born in Buenos Aires on May 7, 1971, the firstborn of Jorge Horacio Zorreguieta Stefanini, minister of the dictatorial regime of Jorge Rafael Videla between 1976 and 1983, and his second wife María del Carmen Cerruti Carricart. The great-grandparents on the paternal side were Italian, Oreste Stefanini, an entrepreneur from Genoa, and Tullia Carolina Borella, a noblewoman with possessions in Piedmont and Lombardy, both forced to emigrate to San Nicolás in 1900 for business. After Máxima, Martín, Juan and Inés (who died by suicide in 2018) were born. From her father’s first marriage with Marta López, María, Ángeles and Dolores were born, therefore three half-sisters.
Máxima Zorreguieta studied at the Northlands School in Olivos, where she graduated in 1988. Until 1990, she worked as a financial markets researcher at Mercado Abierto SA. After that, she found employment in the sales office of Boston Securities SA in Buenos Aires. In the meantime, Máxima Zorreguieta attended the degree course in Economics at the Catholic University of Argentina, graduating in 1995. Her knowledge of foreign languages and mathematics then allowed her to become a private teacher for children and adults.
The move to New York dates back to July 1996, city where she worked for HSBC James Capel Inc. as vice president of institutional sales for Latin America, before moving to Deutsche Bank. In 1999, she finally embarked on a life-changing journey.
In 1999 he arrived in Seville to attend the traditional spring Feria de Abril, Here Máxima Zorreguieta meets Willem Alexander, at the time Prince of Orange and first in line to the throne, without knowing that he was a royal. The two fell in love and dated for two years until the official announcement of their engagement on March 30, 2001. The wedding took place on February 2, 2002 at the New Church in Amsterdam. not without controversy. The bride was in fact Argentine and Catholic, and this caused William Alexander to lose the remote right of succession to the British throne, later regained with the Succession to the Crown Act of 2013. Furthermore, Parliament prevented the presence of his father-in-law Jorge Horacio Zorreguieta Stefanini at the wedding, due to his involvement with the Argentine dictatorial regime. As Princess Máxima Zorreguieta she took an active part in initiatives and projects promoted by the Dutch Crown. In 2002, for example, she became a patron of the Orange Fund, while the following year she joined a government committee created to promote the integration of women belonging to ethnic minority groups in the country. Since 2005, she has also begun to collaborate with the United Nations as a consultant, with the aim of ensuring access to various financial aid for low-income groups and small-medium enterprises.
After the abdication of her mother-in-law, the queen to Beatrice, In 2013 William Alexander became king, first male Dutch throne since 1890. The next sovereign, however, will again be a woman. Máxima Zorreguieta and Willem-Alexander have in fact tking daughters: the firstborn Caterina Amalia, direct heir, Alexia and Ariane.