Embed from Getty Images
The Christening of Prince (now King) Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, eldest son of Princess Beatrix and Prince Claus, at the Grote of Sint-Jacobskerk (Saint Jacob’s Church) in The Hague on this day in 1967. His godparents included his grandfather, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, grandmother, Baroness Gösta von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen, and Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.
