Crown Princess Amalia of the Netherlands
The heir to the throne is allowed to marry a woman
Crown Princess Amalia will one day succeed her father, King Willem-Alexander, to the Dutch throne.
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Crown Princess Amalia is likely to marry a woman. Same-sex marriage is also allowed for monarchs in the Netherlands.
Crown Princess Amalia of the Netherlands (17) could marry a woman if she wanted to. Because, as Prime Minister Mark Rutte (54) has now made clear in a letter to parliament in The Hague, same-sex marriage is also allowed for the queens and kings of the Netherlands.
As the Dutch newspaper “De Telegraaf” reports on, go out from Rutte’s answers to questions about possible problems of the succession to the throne. His party, the VVP, wanted to know whether Amalia would have to abdicate if she wanted to marry a partner of the same sex. This is not a problem for the cabinet, said Rutte. It is not specifically about Amalia, this point of view applies to every heir to the throne.
But there is no law for the succession to the throne
In the case of a same-sex marriage of a queen or a king, however, the regulation of the succession to the throne becomes more difficult. Rutte demands a law for this. He suggested that a future government and parliament should regulate the succession in due course if there were children in the heir to the throne who did not descend from the monarch. Currently, the crown can only be bequeathed to biological children.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in the Netherlands for 20 years. This made the country a pioneer worldwide.