Dutch Princess Margarita, a niece of Queen Beatrix, was making headline news again in the Netherlands on Monday. She is in arrays of paying lawyers who defended her in lawsuits she, and her husband at the time, Mr. Edwin De Roy van Zuydewijn, filed against, among others, the Dutch State.
Princess Margarita (pictured with her former husband in Dutch Parliament in 2003) has to make do with 800 euro per month, her present lawyer claims. She is said to borrow this money from her mother, Princess Irene.
It is believed the low income of the 35-year old Princess is to prevend her former husband, whom she divorced in 2006, from staking a claim on it.
Margarita's present lawyer, Mr. Grem Kemper, commented that his colleagues should have represented the princess and her husband for free; the lawyers never send a bill, but say a fee had been agreed. "I expect the Princess to pay up", Mr. Frits Kemp, one of the lawyers, is quoted.
Princess Margarita de Bourbon de Parme and her husband in 2003 accused the royal familiy and Queen Beatrix especially of spiteful obstruction of their lives. They claimed they were spied on, austracized, and Mr. De Roy van Zuydewijn's promising business career was torpedoed by pressure from the Palace.
"This is not the Margarita I know", the Queen said in response to the vicious accusations, for which the couple went to the press. Margarita and her husband later separated and eventually, after a bitter struggle, divorced. Margarita has since been accepted back in the royal family.
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