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kestrel9 ago

More about Queen Maxima:

Following her secondary education at the Northlands School in Buenos Aires, Máxima earned her degree in Economics from the Universidad Católica Argentina. During this time, she worked for two different financial firms in Buenos Aires as well as tutoring students and adults in English and math. After receiving her degree, Máxima worked for HSBC James Capel, Inc. in New York, serving as Vice President of Latin American Institutional Sales. In early 1998, she began working for Dresdner Kleinwort Benson as Vice President of the Emerging Markets Division. She then moved to Deutsche Bank in 1999, working first in New York and then in the European Union Representative Office in Brussels, Belgium. http://www.unofficialroyalty.com/wedding-of-king-willem-alexander-and-maxima-zorreguieta-cerruti/

Queen Máxima currently serves as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA). The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon designated her to this role in September 2009 in order to raise awareness on the importance of inclusive financial systems for achieving economic and development goals such as poverty alleviation, food security and education.

Looks like that 2009 Speech at the Clinton Global Initiative Finance Dinner really paid off! Along with her husband's connection to UN Sec-Gen Ban Ki-moon of course. Hussein's mom was into microfinance too, as is Muhammod Yunus.

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative/commitments/access-funding-sme-construction-sector-haiti

http://www.microfinancefocus.com/news/2010/01/27/widen-financial-access-to-the-poor-urges-princess-maxima/

In her work as UNSGSA, the Queen focuses on how formal financial services such as savings, insurance, and credit can prevent people from falling into poverty due to expenditures on healthcare, and people who are not able to protect themselves against rising food prices and poverty because they do not have access to basic savings accounts. The role of the UNSGSA is to foster action by governments, private sector, financial system standard setters, and others towards a more inclusive financial system that works for the poor.[27]

Máxima is also the Honorary Patron of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) since June 2011. In this role she works with governments and partners to advance the G20 Action Plan on Financial Inclusion, and the G20 Financial Inclusion Peer Learning Program. >

Previously, the Queen was a member of the Advisors Group for the United Nations' International Year of Microcredit 2005[28] and until 2009, was a member of UN Advisors Group on Inclusive Financial Sectors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Máxima_of_the_Netherlands

See also: https://www.microfinancegateway.org/announcement/dutch-queen-maxima-visits-indonesia-monitor-financial-inclusion-program

Also it sounds like the Dutch Royal couple isn't cheap to support according to this: https://nltimes.nl/2018/04/25/dutch-royals-cost-far-budget-says-report

The Royal Family costs the Netherlands society around six times more than the figures stated in the national budget, according to anti-monarchy group Republikeins Genootschap. After two years of research, the society presented its figures on the costs of the Royal House on Tuesday, NOS reports.

In the national budget, the official budget for the Royal House amounts to around 60 million. But according to the republicans, the actual cost to society is around 350 million euros per year due to numerous hidden costs. such as barely paying any taxes

According to the Republikeins Genootschap, the Netherlands' Royals are one of the richest royal houses in Europe, and also one of the most expensive.

Thankfully Queen Hillary lost the election or we'd be paying out the nose too!


Regarding Queen Maxima's father and why her relationship to then Prince Willem-Alexander was controversial

However, the relationship was controversial to many in the Netherlands, due to Máxima’s father, Jorge Zorreguieta’s service as a cabinet member (March 1979 – March 1981) in the Argentine regime of President Jorge Rafael Videla during the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. http://www.unofficialroyalty.com/wedding-of-king-willem-alexander-and-maxima-zorreguieta-cerruti/

so on a hunch...

Jorge Rafael Videla

...Videla also sheltered many Nazi fugitives along with Juan Perón before him, Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay and Hugo Banzer of Bolivia. He was under house arrest until 10 October 2008, when he was sent to a military prison.[5]

Following a new trial, on 22 December 2010, Videla was sentenced to life in a civilian prison for the deaths of 31 prisoners following his coup.[6][7] On 5 July 2012, Videla was sentenced to 50 years in prison for the systematic kidnapping of children during his tenure.[8] The following year, Videla died in the Marcos Paz civilian prison five days after suffering a fall in a shower.[9]

That's what I thought after reading about Prince "Bilderberg" Bernhard

He came to power in a coup d'état that deposed Isabel Martínez de Perón. In 1985, two years after the return of a representative democratic government, he was prosecuted in the Trial of the Juntas for large-scale human rights abuses and crimes against humanity that took place under his rule, including kidnappings or forced disappearance, widespread torture and extrajudicial murder of activists and political opponents as well as their families at secret concentration camps. An estimated 5,000[1]-30,000[2] political dissidents vanished during this period. Videla was also convicted of the theft of many babies born during the captivity of their mothers at the illegal detention centres and passing them on for illegal adoption by associates of the regime.


Lucky they got that straightened out.

Here's King Willem-Alexander at the June 8, 2016 Bilderberg Group gathering. Weird to think that his former Nazi grandfather founded it! http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/X6IZkx8dbQb/2016+Bilderberg+Conference+Dresden/gKWmpSvNyPb

Hey look, here's No Name at a 2013 Kissinger award event in Berlin. Small world.

In This Photo: John McCain, Henry Kissinger, Thomas De Maiziere, A. Michael Hoffman, Vera de Lesseps

Countess Vera de Lesseps accepts the Henry A. Kissinger Prize on behalf of her late father, Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, as (from L to R) U.S. Senator John McCain, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, American Academy in Berlin President A. Michael Hoffman and German Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere look on at the Henry A. Kissinger Prize 2013 award at the American Academy in Berlin on June 10, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/kWcebqiYeDX/Henry+Kissinger+Prize+Event+Berlin/3a63RyNOYj-/Henry+Kissinger