Editing Beatrix of the Netherlands (section)

==Titles, styles, honours and arms==
[[File:Royal Monogram of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.svg|thumb|100px|right|Royal Monogram of Queen Beatrix]]
{{Main|List of titles and honours of Beatrix of the Netherlands}}
*31 January 1938 – 30 April 1980: ''Her Royal Highness'' Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld<ref name=Parlement>[http://www.parlement.com/9353000/1f/j9vvhy5i95k8zxl/vg09llxoh0r1 H.M. (koningin Beatrix) Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616093508/http://www.parlement.com/9353000/1f/j9vvhy5i95k8zxl/vg09llxoh0r1 |date=16 June 2012 }} (Parlement.nl)</ref>
*30 April 1980 – 30 April 2013: ''Her Majesty'' The Queen of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld<ref name="Parlement"/>
*30 April 2013 – present: ''Her Royal Highness'' Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld<ref name="Parlement"/>

Princess Beatrix has held titles throughout her life, as a granddaughter or daughter of a monarch, and eventually as the Sovereign. Beatrix's official title was ''Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, etc., etc., etc''.<ref name="Parlement"/> The triple ''etc.'' refers to the monarch's [[Style of the Dutch sovereign|many dormant titles]]. She signed official documents with only "Beatrix". In common parlance, she was referred to as ''The Queen'' (''de koningin'' or ''de vorstin'') or ''Her Majesty'' (Hare Majesteit). But when in conversation with the queen the practice was to initially address her as "Your [[Majesty]]" or in [[Dutch language|Dutch]] as "Uwe Majesteit"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/english/content.jsp?objectid=13853|title=The Dutch Royal House; FAQ; "How should I address members of the Royal House?"|access-date=29 June 2008| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070610075751/http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/english/content.jsp?objectid=13853| archive-date = 10 June 2007}}</ref> and thereafter as "Mevrouw" (ma'am).<ref name=stylepref>{{cite news|last=Van den Bor|first=Conny|title=Queen Beatrix – still impeccable after 30 years|url=http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/queen-beatrix-still-impeccable-after-30-years|access-date=28 January 2013|newspaper=Radio Netherlands Worldwide|date=29 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111185457/http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/queen-beatrix-still-impeccable-after-30-years|archive-date=11 November 2013|url-status = dead}}</ref>

Beatrix has received honours and awards from countries around the world, both during her life as a princess and as a monarch. In her capacity as the Sovereign she was Grand Master of the Military Order of William (''Militaire Willemsorde'') and the other Dutch orders of merit. She is a Stranger Lady of the [[Most Noble Order of the Garter]] and the 1,187th [[knight|Dame]] of the [[Order of the Golden Fleece]] in [[Spain]], and she has received numerous other medals and decorations.

From birth till her inauguration as queen, she had the following name and titles, to which she reverted after her abdication: ''Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld''.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/nieuws/nieuwsberichten/2013/januari/prins-van-oranje-wordt-koning-willem-alexander/ | title=Prins van Oranje wordt Koning Willem-Alexander | publisher=Website of the Royal House | language=nl | date=28 January 2013 | access-date=28 January 2013}}</ref>

===Arms===
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| image             = Coat of Arms of Beatrix of the Netherlands.svg
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| bannerimage       = Standard of a Princess of the Netherlands (daughters of Juliana).svg
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| notes             = As Queen of the Netherlands (1980–2013), Beatrix used the '''[[Greater Coat of Arms of the Realm]]''' (or "Grote Rijkswapen"). 
| adopted           = 30 April 2013
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| escutcheon        = Quarterly, 1 and 3, Azure, billetty Or a lion with a coronet Or armed and langued Gules holding in his dexter paw a sword Argent hilted Or and in the sinister paw seven arrows Argent pointed and bound together Or ([[Coat of arms of the Netherlands|royal arms of the Netherlands]], i.e. that of her mother, Queen Juliana), 2 and 4, Or, a horn azure, langued gules (arms of the former [[Principality of Orange]]), on an inescutcheon argent, a rose gules, seeded vert (arms of the [[House of Lippe-Biesterfeld]], i.e. that of her late father, [[Prince Bernhard]])
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| banner            = As Princess, Beatrix used a square and swallow tailed flag, with the Royal standard colours and their maternal arms (the horn of Orange) in the upper hoist and their paternal arms (the rose of Lippe) in the lower hoist. The arms of the Netherlands (which originates from Nassau) without the insignia of the Order of Willem within an orange circle.
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| previous_versions = [[File:Royal Arms of the Netherlands.svg|right|70px]] Beatrix as monarch bore the Greater Coat of Arms of the Realm, (or "Grote Rijkswapen"). The components of the coats of arms were regulated by [[Queen Wilhelmina]] in a royal decree of 10 July 1907 and were affirmed by [[Queen Juliana]] in a royal decree of 23 April 1980:

[[Azure (heraldry)|Azure]], billetty [[Or (heraldry)|Or]] a [[lion (heraldry)|lion]] with a [[coronet]] Or armed and langued [[Gules]] holding in his dexter paw a [[sword]] [[Argent]] hilted Or and in the sinister paw seven [[arrow]]s Argent pointed and bound together Or.
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