Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand; born 27 April 1967) is King of the Netherlands since 30 April 2013.
Willem-Alexander was born in Utrecht during the reign of his maternal grandmother, Queen Juliana, as the eldest child of Princess Beatrix and Prince Claus.
He became Prince of Orange as heir apparent upon his mother's accession on 30 April 1980.
He went to public primary and secondary schools in the Netherlands, and an international sixth-form college in Wales.
