The Princess and Mr.Albert Brenninkmeijer will get married on june 16th. 
oops,sorry,in Florence / Firenze,Italy
HRH Princess Maria Carolina de Bourbon de Parma and Mr.Albert Brenninkmeijer were married today in
a civil ceremony at the Town Hall of Wijk bij Duurstede where her mother,P{rincess Irene,lives.
The religious ceremony will follow on june 16th at the San Miniato al Monte church in Florence,Italy.
A week from today!
HM Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands and TRH The Prince of Orange,Princess Máxima,Prince Constantijn & Princess Laurentien,Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven and their sons and partners except princess Anita ( still recovering),will be in attendance at the wedding of one of the most loved members of the family which Maria Carolina is,this saturday.TRH Prince Friso and Princess Mabel will be sadly missed too tho.
Some of the most stunning venues in use for the wedding starting with the Palazzo Corsini for tonights pre-wedding dinner:
http://www.palazzocorsini.com/
The dinner and ball tomorrow will be at Villa Colazzi:
http://www.collazzi.com/villa.html
And Villa Triboli for sundays brunch:
http://villatriboli.com/photos/
And some more...:
http://firenze.repubblica.it/cronaca/2012/06/14/news/nozze_reali_a_san_miniato_si_sposa_carolina_d_olanda-37186145/
Elevated to "Carolina di Olanda" in a jiffy...Oh well...a wedding gift by a Repubblica journalist Ilaria (Hilaria-) Ciuti...
The venue is one of the most beautifull churches in existence,a favorite of her late father,so Princess Maria Carolina,Marquesa di Sala choose the San Miniato al Monte in Florence for her wedding.Today will highlight two young people who usually live outside the spotlights,their own choise.That was easyer to do for Albert Brenninkmeijer who's in the family business since he was 18,then it was for Maria Carolina,being the granddaughter of HM Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard,a niece to HM Queen Beatrix,and daughter to the inspirational Princess Irene and Prince Carlos Hugo,the late Duke of Parma.She was only seen on family haydays,weddings & funerals&birthday bashes,and worked & lived quietly,mostly at totally unexpected places due to her work.Born at Nijmegen in The Netherlands,raised in Madrid and Paris,and at Soestdijk Palace,studied in the US she is internationally oriented.That also goes for her work for the UN Humanitarian Office.She lived in Eritrea,Zimbabwe and the Palestinian Territories fe,living of a diet of falafel and black coffee.A "great & tough job" as she calls it,but also Noblesse Oblige;"A logic consequence of our upbringing,of our Family tradition".
While living and working in the Palestinian Territories,she often met with her brother Prince Jaime on her short holidays,who also worked in "the region",stationed at Kabul,Afghanistan and Bagdad,Iraq,for the Dutch Foreign Office as a conflict management expert.
10 Years ago the Spanish media tought Maria Carolina and then still bachelor Felipe de Asturias to be a perfect match,and allthough her father said;"Nothing in life is impossible",it was the Princess that terminated it with a;"I don't do rumours"....grin...
