Princess Margarita will marry her fiancé Mr. Tjalling Ten Cate on Saturday 3 May, Dutch television programmes Netwerk and RTL Boulevard said on Wednesday. Since the Princess' previous marriage has not been annulled there will only be a civil ceremony. Dutch daily De Telegraaf earlier already reported that Princess Margarita would only have a low-key civil ceremony.
Princess Margarita, daughter of Princess Irene and a niece of Queen Beatrix, wanted to keep the date and place of her second wedding a secret, but royal correspondent Marc van der Linden brought the news on Wednesday evening in RTL Boulevard.
Princess Margarita (35) married her first husband, Mr. Edwin de Roy van Zuydewijn, with considerable more pomp late 2001. They threw a large party at their new home in the south of France. The festivities were marred by quarrels between the newly weds, which were infamously carried out in front of the television cameras.
Mr. Tjalling Ten Cate (32), who has an interest in art and is member of the art commission of the Dutch national bank, De Nederlandsche Bank, previously worked as a lawyer at the office of AKD Prinsen van Wijmen. He studied Law at the prestigious Leiden University, where Queens Juliana and Beatrix, and princes Willem-Alexander, Constantijn and Floris studied too.
He is said to be good natured, and likes to play golf, field hockey and is said to enjoy sailing. Tjalling Ten Cate has an older brother, Reitse, and spent his youth in the town of Soest - not far from Margarita’s former home near Soestdijk Palace. His parents are, like Margarita’s parents Princess Irene of the Netherlands and Prince Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, divorced.
© GPD Netherlands Press Association; Photos by © GPD & Royal Press Europe, Albert Nieboer
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