Worn by Marie de Medici during her 1610 coronation as the queen of France, it later passed on to the House of Orange-Nassau, now the Dutch royal family, and then to the collection of the queen of England before arriving in Prussia in 1702.

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Orange fireworks were accompanied by a huge fanfare as Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands opened the building.

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Queen Beatrix, of the Netherlands, walks an orange carpet this week to reopen the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam.

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Queen Beatrix is the sixth monarch from the House of Orange-Nassau, which has ruled the Netherlands since the early 19th Century.

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Born on 27 April 1967 as the first child of Queen Beatrix and the late Prince Claus, the Prince of Orange is the first male head of state of the Netherlands since 1890.

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