This page gives an overview of Princess Beatrix’s schooling and university education.
various European and international organisations in Geneva, Strasbourg, Paris and Brussels
Willem I was the first King of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
On 16 March 1815 he accepted the throne and was invested as King in Brussels on 21
Mabel Martine Wisse Smit was born in Pijnacker on 11 August 1968 as the eldest daughter of Henk Los and Flos Kooman. After her father’s death in 1978, her mother married Peter Wisse Smit. In 1984 Princess Mabel officially took his surname.
1997 to 2008 she worked for the Open Society Foundations, first as director of the Brussels
In Brussels the Netherlands continues to strive for a European Union that provides
