- guardian.co.uk, Sunday February 3 2002 00.23 GMT
It was a Disney-perfect wedding, with a beautiful bride in a snow-white Valentino gown, a handsome-ish prince in naval uniform, and a golden carriage with pageboys.
Cheered by well-wishers and watched by 1,700 guests - including Prince Charles and Nelson Mandela - Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, the 34-year-old heir to the Dutch throne, married Maxima Zorreguieta, 30, an economist. The cheers set the seal on a wedding to which parliament agreed on condition that Maxima's father did not attend. Jorge Horacio Zorreguieta served as Agriculture Minister in the 1979-81 Argentine dictatorship, when 30,000 people died or disappeared.
Eggs were thrown at the carriage as they drove round the city.
