With other words: the Royal House Act 2002 has excluded the titles 'King of the Netherlands' and 'Prince of Orange' to be shared by the female spouse. Because these are the only noble title on which is not exclusively be inherited by issue from a male descendant only, as is the case with all other noble titles in the Netherlands.
Sorry to bring that up again, but I'm still not convinced that Maxima will not be queen.
That is how I understand the Act of 2002.
It wanted to make clear who is a member of the Royal House in his or her own right, who can become a member, what will happen if one ceases to be a member. Plus which member has which title in his own right.
New is that there is no difference between male or female children. New is that the spouse of the souverain and of the heir apparent can be created a Prince or Princess in his or her own right. This mean they are full members with their own title and rank.
It's not like in Britain where except Prince Philip who was created a prince of the UK in his own right, all female spouses are only called by their husband's title and style out of courtesy but don't possess them personally - in their own right.
Princess Maxima on her marriage became a real member of the Royal House and was given the title of a princess in her own right. As long as she stays married (and becoming a widow is treated equally, as long as the widow doesn't remarry) she is a member in her own right.
So - this is good. But where in the Act does it say that the old traditional ways of sharing a husband's rank, style and title (name) are abolished? As the Netherland still have an aristocracy, there must be a law about sharing rank on marriage, no? Or is it accepted "Common law"-tradition? In any case there must be a formal way to handle this as there are ranks and titles in the Netherlands besides the Royal ones and thus there must be rules for the marriage of females to the holders of such rank and titles. Be it in the family laws or somewhere else, these have to exist somewhere.
Can someone of our Dutch members help with that?
Does it say somewhere in the Act of 2002 that these rules do not longer apply for Royals? Because if not, they form a parallel law to this Act. There is a hint that this is the case because all spouses of the sons of queen Beatrix became "Jonkrouw van Amsberg" on marriage, because they married a "Jonkheer van Amsberg". if there wasn't a rule for sharing the husband's rank, then they wouldn't become a "Jonkrouw" (a "noblewoman") but a Mevrouw ("married woman"). Or not?
So the Act of 2002 only covers Maxima's title and position of a member of the Ryaol House which includes "ministerial responsibility" as the homepage of the Royal House says. It does not cover her right to share her husband's rank and titles.
Of course at the moment her own personal rank as a Princess of the Netherlands is higher than the rank as spouse of her husband The Prince of Orange. Thus she is named not by her courtesy style as Princess of Orange but by her own which obviously gives her more than just a courtesy position in the constitution of the Netherlands.
It will be different when Willem-Alexander becomes king. She will still be a Princess of the Netherlands then, just like her husband still is a Prince, too. But then her courtesy rank of her husband's queen and her share of his title of "Majesty" probably outranks her own personal title as a Princess. No?
I understood the government's position as quoted some pages earlier as follows: At the moment Maxima is the Princess of the Netherlands and will stay that even after her husband's accession. It will be decided when the need arises on the accession of king Willem-Alexander if her own personal title or her courtesy title of Queen will become her official title.
But people of the Netherlands can call her queen if they so want because by courtesy she will be her husband's queen anyway.
Is that correct?