Princess Amalia is allowed by her mother, Queen Máxima, to celebrate her seventeenth birthday for a week. The princess’s birthday is Monday.
Princess Amalia is allowed by her mother, Queen Máxima, to celebrate her seventeenth birthday for a week. The princess’s birthday is Monday.
The festivities are determined and limited by the applicable corona rules, the queen makes clear. “We know what is possible. Three people are allowed to visit each day. We have to adhere to that.” But according to Máxima, there is no need to draw.
“We try to spread it out. That three people come on that day and three others visit on another day. So the whole week is dedicated to Amalia’s birthday,” says the queen. However, that policy does have consequences for Amalia’s sisters Alexia and Ariane. “The others are not allowed to bring anyone.”
“It is what it is”, says Máxima. “You have to make do with what you have and we make the best of it. It will certainly be a happening for the whole family.”
Last birthday as a minor, then state allowance
Her seventeenth birthday is the last of the princess, the first in the line of succession, as a minor. The princess does not receive a state grant until her eighteenth birthday.
As an adult and ‘presumptive successor to the king’, Amalia is entitled to a constitutional payment of 1,587,000 euros per year from 7 December 2021. Of this, 282,000 euros has been set as personal income and 1,305,000 euros for personnel and material expenses.
Princess Amalia will not receive the allowance from her eighteenth birthday with retroactive effect over the whole of 2021. The allowance amounts to approximately 107,000 euros for the 25 days that she is of age in that year.
