In memory of Friso

The Dutch royal house has just updated its website to highlight a photo of Prince Friso with his wife, Mabel, taken in 2008.  It's there in memory and in tribute to the prince who died this morning at the age of 44.

 

 

Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau with his wife, Mabel, in 2008

 

The website also shows another picture, taken thirty years earlier, of the then still princess Beatrix with her husband and three sons.  Just two years after that she became queen and her middle son became second in line to the throne. 

 

 

Beatrix and her boys - the future queen of the Netherlands with her husband, Claus, and their three sons.  Friso is at the front of the photo.