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). he was the under-secretary of agriculture under 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.