What is Queen Máxima of the Netherlands?
{{more sources|January 2012}} {{Infobox royalty | consort =yes | name =Máxima | title = Queen Máxima of the Netherlands | image =Koningin-maxima-okt-15-s.jpg | caption = Princess Máxima at the wedding of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, 19 June 2010 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1971|05|17}} | birth_place = [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]] | spouse = [[Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange|King Willem-Alexander]] | issue = [[Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands|Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange]]<br/>[[Princess Alexia of the Netherlands|Princess Alexia]]<br/>[[Princess Ariane of the Netherlands|Princess Ariane]] | father = Jorge Horacio Zorreguieta Stefanini | mother = María del Carmen Cerruti Carricart |religion=Roman Catholic|house=Orange-Nassau (by marriage)}} {{Dutch Royal Family}} '''Queen Máxima of the Netherlands''' (born as ''Máxima Zorreguieta''; 17 May 1971) is the wife of [[Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands]]. ==Early life and education== She was born Máxima Zorreguieta in [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]], on 17 May 1971. Máxima is the daughter of Jorge Horacio Zorreguieta Stefanini, a [[farmer]] and a [[politician]] (died 2017).<ref>[http://www.wargs.com/royal/maxima.html Ancestry of Maxima Zorreguieta (b. 1971)], ''William Adams Reitwiesner Genealogical Services''</ref> He was the under-secretary of [[Agriculture]] under [[Jorge Rafael Videla|Jorge R. Videla]]'s [[military dictatorship]]. She studied in Northlands School, in Argentina. She has two brothers, a sister and three half-sisters by her father's first wife. She graduated with a degree in [[Economics]] from the Universidad Católica Argentina in 1995 before working for large international companies in [[Finance]] in [[Argentina]], [[New York City|New York]] and [[Europe]]. In June 2018, her sister Inés Zorreguieta, committed suicide by hanging herself at her [[Buenos Aires]] apartment, aged 33.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/queen-maxima-netherlands-sister-found-12660741|title=Queen Maxima