He arrived as Prince Willem-Alexander, but his first cry echoed from the floor of a hospital room in Utrecht that wasn't even his family's home. Born to Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus, he was immediately a boy with two older sisters, making him the first male heir to the Dutch throne in 132 years. That pressure cooker of expectation shaped a man who'd later swap royal robes for jeans on a houseboat. Today, the concrete proof isn't a statue or a speech; it's the fact that the Netherlands finally had its first king since 1890.
April 27, 1967
59 years ago
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