Queen Máxima of the Netherlands nasceu o 17 de maio de 1971 em Buenos Aires, Argentina. É casada com King Willem-Alexander desde o 2 de fevereiro de 2002 e tem três filhos.
In 1999 she met her husband, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of the
Netherlands, at a party in Seville, Spain. She had heard a prince would
be there, but had no clue who it might be.