Education
Princess Margriet received her primary education at The Workshop (De Werkplaats), Kees Boeke’s progressive school in Bilthoven, and at the Nieuwe Baarnse School in Baarn.
She completed her secondary education at the Baarns Lyceum, passing her school leaving examinations in 1961.
University
On leaving secondary school, Princess Margriet spent a year studying French literature, history and art history at the University of Montpellier. On her return to the Netherlands she enrolled at Leiden University, where she studied elementary jurisprudence, constitutional law, Roman law and some social science subjects.