# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/prince-claus-of-the-netherlands
# Generated: 2026-09-01T08:46:04.104Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/prince-claus-of-the-netherlands"
name: "Prince Claus of the Netherlands"
slug: "prince-claus-of-the-netherlands"
description: "He entered Dutch public life as the German diplomat who married the future queen — a pairing that drew sharp protest in a country still raw from occupation. The controversy faded; the role endured for two decades."
tagline: "Consort of the Netherlands (1980 - 2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prince_Claus_of_the_Netherlands_1986.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
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profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1926-09-06"
deathDate: "2002-10-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           25.392336
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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    slug: "business-professionals"
  - name: "Writer / Author"
    slug: "writer-author"
  - name: "20th Century"
    slug: "20th-century"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Klaus-Georg Wilhelm Otto Friedrich Gerd von Amsberg on 6 September 1926, he served as a West German diplomat and deputy ambassador to Ivory Coast before meeting Princess Beatrix on New Year's Eve 1963. They married in 1966 amid public tension over his German origins in a Netherlands barely twenty years past the war. When Beatrix ascended to the throne on 30 April 1980, he became Prince of the Netherlands — a consort position he held through twenty-two years until his death on 6 October 2002.