Losing the right of succession

Only persons related to the monarch to the third degree of consanguinity are eligible for succession to the throne.

Members of the Royal House also lose their right to succeed if they marry without parliament’s approval. This applied in 2004, for instance, when Prince Friso married Princess Mabel without Parliament’s official permission. It also applied to the marriages of Prince Pieter-Christiaan in 2005, Princess Christina in 1975 and Princess Irene in 1964.