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Which member of the Dutch royal family was it who was born in Ottawa?

- montréalais

Princess Margriet (the youngest sister of Queen Beatrix) was born 1943/01/19 in Ottawa, when the family were refugees in Canada due to the German occupation of the Netherlands. Jeronimo

She was not her youngest sister: Christina is. She was born in the Netherlands after the war

See http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/UK/royal_house/members.html (the English homepage of the Dutch royal house)--branko

Are there any Republicans in the Netherlands? I know for instance there are quite a few Republicans in England (and probably even more than will publicly admit it -- it appears to me that a significant portion of Labour MPs have Republican sympathies, but the Blair Government would like to avoid this being overly noticed, lest they offend the royalists in the general public.)