Editing Beatrix of the Netherlands (section)

==Education==
[[File:Christmas - queen Juliana and princess Beatrix.jpg|thumb|Princess Beatrix and [[Queen Juliana]] in 1960]]
In April 1950, Princess Beatrix entered the Incrementum, a part of Baarnsch Lyceum, where, in 1956, she passed her school graduation examinations in the subjects of arts and classics.<ref name="studies">{{cite web |url=http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/Wie_is_wie/H_M_de_Koningin/Studie |title=Het Koninklijk Huis |publisher=Koninklijkhuis.nl |access-date=5 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100225032242/http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/Wie_is_wie/H_M_de_Koningin/Studie |archive-date=25 February 2010 |url-status = dead }}</ref> Her tutor from April 1951 was {{ill|Gertrude Büringh Boekhoudt|nl}}, who remained a close confidant until Büringh Boekhoudt's death in 1982.{{sfn|Oltmans|1996|pp=4-7, 9, 12-13, 18}}

In 1954, Beatrix served as a bridesmaid at the wedding of Baroness van Randwijck and Mr. T Boey.<ref>{{cite web|title=Princess Beatrix Bridesmaid at Wedding|url=http://www.britishpathe.com/video/princess-beatrix-bridesmaid-at-wedding-of-mr-t-boe/|publisher=British Pathe}}</ref>

On 31 January 1956, Beatrix celebrated her 18th birthday. From that date, under the Constitution of the Netherlands, she was entitled to assume the [[Royal Prerogative]].  At that time, her mother installed her in the [[Dutch Council of State|Council of State]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.coe.int/T/E/Com/Files/PA-Sessions/June-2002/e_CV_Reine_Beatrix.asp|title=e CV Reine Beatrix|website=coe.int|access-date=20 January 2017}}</ref>

The same year her studies at [[Leiden University]] began. In her first years at the university, she studied [[sociology]], [[jurisprudence]], [[economics]], [[political history|parliamentary history]] and [[constitutional law]].<ref name="studies"/> In the course of her studies she also attended lectures on the cultures of [[Suriname]] and the [[Netherlands Antilles]], the [[Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands]], [[international affairs]], [[international law]], history and [[European law]].

The princess also visited various European and international organisations in [[Geneva]], [[Strasbourg]], [[Paris]], and [[Brussels]].  She was also an active member of the VVSL (Female Union for Students in Leiden), now called L.S.V. Minerva, after merging with the Leidsch Studenten Corps (which before then was male-only). In the summer of 1959, she passed her preliminary examination in law, and she obtained her law degree in July 1961.<ref name="studies"/>