Princess Beatrice VA, CI, GCVO, GBE, RRC, GCStJ (Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore 14 April 1857 – 26 October 1944), later Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke.Princess Laurentien succeeded Princess Margriet as President of the ECF in 2007. The award honours thinkers, artists and activists whose work engages the European public and makes them think about the role culture and cultural diversity play in society. When she retired from this appointment, the ECF set up the Princess Margriet Award for Cultural Diversity in acknowledgement of her work. Areas of interest: cultureįrom 1984 to 2007 Princess Margriet was President of the European Cultural Foundation. She took part in many international conferences, often as head of the Dutch delegation, and in meetings for board members and delegates. From 2005 to the end of 2013, Princess Margriet was a member of the governing board of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. From December 1995 to December 2003 she chaired the highest international body of the Red Cross, the Standing Commission. Since 1967 Princess Margriet has been actively involved in the work of the International Red Cross. Professor Maarten van Aalst was appointed to the chair in 2019. The Princess Margriet Research Chair, part of the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) at the University of Twente, focuses its research activities on building resilience against natural disasters and climate change. To mark the Princess’ 75th birthday in 2018, the Red Cross and the University of Twente established a chair in her name. In 2011, in recognition of her services, the Netherlands Red Cross set up the Princess Margriet Fund, which works to help populations at risk to prepare better for natural disasters. From 1987 to 2011, the year in which her final term of office ended, she was vice-president of the organisation.
Princess Margriet began her voluntary work for the Netherlands Red Cross (in Dutch) in 1966, serving as a nursing auxiliary 1st class. and the children of Prince Floris and Princess Aimée: Magali (b.the children of Prince Pieter-Christiaan and Princess Anita: Emma (b.the children of Prince Bernhard and Princess Annette: Isabella (b.the children of Prince Maurits and Princess Marilène: Anna (b.The couple also have eleven grandchildren: Princess Margriet and Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven have four sons: Prince Maurits (b. In 1975 they moved to their present home, Het Loo House, which they had had built near the Palace. The Princess and her husband took up residence in the east wing of Het Loo Palace in Apeldoorn. The marriage was blessed in the Grote of St Jacobskerk in The Hague by Professor Hendrikus Berkhof. The civil marriage ceremony was conducted by the Mayor of The Hague, Hans van Kolfschoten, in the then town hall in Javastraat on 10 January 1967. Their engagement was announced on 10 March 1965. While studying at Leiden University, Princess Margriet met her future husband, Pieter van Vollenhoven. After this, she trained as a nursing auxiliary 1st class with the Netherlands Red Cross (in Dutch) at De Lichtenberg hospital in Amersfoort. On her return to the Netherlands she enrolled at Leiden University, where she studied elementary jurisprudence, constitutional law, Roman law and some social science subjects. She spent the next year studying French literature, history and art history at the University of Montpellier in France. She received her secondary education at the Baarns Lyceum, where she passed her school leaving examinations in 1961. Princess Margriet received her primary education at De Werkplaats school in Bilthoven and at the Nieuwe Baarnse School in Baarn. The family took up residence in Soestdijk Palace in Baarn. It was not until 2 August 1945, when the Netherlands had been liberated, that Princess Margriet, accompanied by her parents and sisters, first set foot on Dutch soil. Roosevelt and the Dutch Merchant Navy, in honour of the role played by the latter during the Second World War. Her godparents included President Franklin D. Princess Margriet was baptised in St Andrew's Church, Ottawa, on 29 June 1943. Image: © RVD - Martijn Beekman Princess Margriet, 2020.
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