Crownprince Willem Alexander (The Netherlands)

Last modified: 2004-07-24 by jarig bakker
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• Prince Willem-Alexander and his brothers (Princes Johan Friso and Constantijn)
• Princess Maxima (possible) flag
• Willem-Alexander and Maxima photo-flag

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• The Netherlands: royal flags
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Prince Willem-Alexander and his brothers (Princes Johan Friso and Constantijn)

Finally, a bit of vexillography. I have made my own hypothesis for Prince Willem-Alexander's standard, considering/supposing that (a) princes use 5:6 rectangular flags, while princesses use swallow tailed ones and that (b) princes and princesses of the blood use a blue cross on orange with a hunting horn in the upper hoist and their parental arms in the lower hoist, while princes-consort use an orange cross on blue with the Orange-Nassau lion in the upper hoist and lower fly and their own Arms in the other cantons. Sent separately as: nl!pwill.gif Standard of Prince Willem-Alexander (proposal)
Santiago Dotor, 16 February 2000

Princess Maxima flag

Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands is now happily wed with his Máxima Zorreguieta - congratulations to all Dutch! According to the newspaper De Telegraaf, the Crown Princess has (not surprisingly) even been granted a personal CoA and a flag by the Queen.
From the text below, it seems that the flag has an orange cross on blue, with the hunting horn and a castle (probably the one from her family CoA that also forms the heart shield of her new CoA). This is all the newspaper tells us, but I suppose there will also appear the state arms in the center, as on the other royal flags. No idea about the shape; probably swallow-tailed, as for other princesses?

The following text and a picture of the CoA can be found at this webpage (possibly outdated, ed.)
(translated)
"On the advice of the High Council of Nobility a special Coat of Arms was designed for Máxima, drawn by P. Bultsma from Kollum. The CoA consists of 4 parts:
I and IV a golden Dutch lion
II and III a hunting horn
As heartshield the CoA of Máxima Zorreguieta shows a castle with two cypresses and two black wolves. On the swallow-tailed blue flag with orange cross, which Princess Máxima will from now on use on her car, only the hunting horn of Orange and a castle will be seen."
Marco Pribilla, 2 Feb 2002

The flag and coat-of-arms were adopted 25 January 2002, and published in Staatsblad nr. 42.
From the given description and patterns from the other royal Dutch flags, I made the attached image. But note that this is only a provisional image meant to give you an idea how the flag will *probably* look like!