Education
The Prince received both his primary and secondary education in Apeldoorn.
He gained a HAVO (senior general secondary education) certificate in 1987 and his VWO (pre-university education) certificate in 1988. He went on to study economics at Georgetown University in Washington DC, USA.
In 1989 he enrolled at Groningen University to study economics, specialising in marketing and market research, and gaining work experience at, for example, Philips in Singapore. He was awarded his degree in 1995. The subject of his dissertation was quality management at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in Scandinavia.