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Princess Margriet<br />
1995-2003<br />
Princess Margriet served as Chairwomen of the Standing Commission between December<br />
1995 and December 2003. She has been an active part of the Movement since she joined her<br />
local branch of the Netherlands Red Cross as a volunteer in 1966. Internationally she has also<br />
been involved in the Movement having been both a member and the vice-chairman of the<br />
Study Group on the Future of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Outside the<br />
Movement, she has been President of the European Cultural Foundation, Patroness of the<br />
Foundation “SOS Children’s Villages, the Netherlands” and a Member of the Advisory<br />
Committee of the National Association for the Care of the Terminally Ill, amongst others.<br />
Princess Margriet studied at the University of Montpellier and Leiden University. She was<br />
born in Ottawa, Canada on January 19 th , 1943 and is married with four sons.<br />
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