Pieter van Vollenhoven
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Template:Dutch Royal Family Pieter van Vollenhoven (born April 30, 1939) is the husband of HRH Princess Margriet of the Netherlands.
Born in Schiedam, he is the second son of Pieter van Vollenhoven (1897-1977) and his wife Jacoba Gijsbertha Stuyling de Lange (1906-1983).
He attended the University of Leiden and graduated in law in 1965, after which he worked as a legal officer for the Netherlands Council of State. In 1966, he performed his military ervice with the Royal Netherlands Air Force, and attained a Military Pilot's licence the following year.
On 10 January 1967 at The Hague, he married HRH Princess Margriet of the Netherlands. He became a member of the Royal House, but he bears no titles as a result of the marriage.
Their descendants are:
- Maurits van Vollenhoven (b. 17 April 1968) m. Marilène van den Broek (b. 4 February 1970)
- Anna van Lippe-Biesterfeld van Vollenhoven (b. 15 April 2001)
- Lucas van Lippe-Biesterfeld van Vollenhoven (b. 26 October 2002)
- Bernhard van Vollenhoven (b. 25 December 1969) m. Annette Sekrève (b. 18 April 1972)
- Pieter Christiaan van Vollenhoven (b. 22 March 1972)
- Floris van Vollenhoven (b. 10 April 1975)
Peier van Vollenhoven is the chairman of the Transport Safety Board, the National Road Safety Fund, the Society, Safety and Police Association, the Victim Support Fund, the Advisory Council of the National Victim Support Association, the International Transport Safety Board, the National Restoration Fund, the Green Fund, and is a member of the European Transport Safety Council.
In 1986 Mr van Vollenhoven formed a trio - De Gevleugelde Vrienden - with two of the country's leading pianists and gave some twenty concerts a year both at home and abroad in aid of the Victim Support Fund. De Gevleugelde Vrienden were awarded four gold discs. Since the death of one of the members of the trio, Pim Jacobs, Mr van Vollenhoven has continued to give concerts with pianists Louis van Dijk and Koos Mark.
He is Aide-de-Camp Extraordinary to Her Majesty Queen Beatrix.nl:Pieter van Vollenhoven