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Date: 2005-04-11 04:54 pm (UTC)I believe the issue is not so much that they had to be Dutch as that they had to not be Canadian; they'd acquire the correct citizenship through their parents (and even if they didn't, the Dutch Parliament would have fallen over themselves to pass a law granting it). But, when all's said and done, having a head-of-state with dual nationality is potentially very messy - what happens if there's a diplomatic rift between the countries? A lot can happen in twenty or thirty years... worse, what if it was a boy? He'd be liable for Canadian military service if it was still around in 1970... and I'm sure you can imagine Comedy Potential as a result.