Bernardo Guillermo

Bernardo Guillermo
Born	Bernardo Federico Tomás Guillermo (1977-06-17) 17 June 1977 Utrecht, Netherlands
Education	Sarah Lawrence College Pratt Institute
Occupation	Furniture designer
Spouse(s)	Eva Valdez (m. 2009)
Children	2
Parent(s)	Jorge Pérez y Guillermo Princess Christina of the Netherlands
Relatives	Gilberto Perez (paternal uncle)

Dutch Royal Family
HM The King * HM The Queen * HRH The Princess of Orange * HRH Princess Alexia * HRH Princess Ariane * HRH Princess Beatrix * HRH Princess Mabel Countess Luana Countess Zaria HRH Prince Constantijn * HRH Princess Laurentien * Countess Eloise Count Claus-Casimir Countess Leonore Extended royal family HRH Princess Irene HRH The Duke of Parma HRH The Duchess of Parma HRH The Countess of Colorno Tjalling Siebe ten Cate HRH The Count of Bardi HRH The Countess of Bardi HRH The Marchioness of Sala Albert Brenninkmeijer HRH Princess Margriet * Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven * HH Prince Maurits HH Princess Marilène HH Prince Bernhard HH Princess Annette HH Prince Pieter-Christiaan HH Princess Anita HH Prince Floris HH Princess Aimée HRH Princess Christina Bernardo Guillermo Eva Guillermo Nicolás Guillermo Juliana Guillermo * Member of the Dutch royal house

Bernardo Federico Tomás Guillermo (born 17 June 1977, Utrecht, Netherlands) is a furniture designer and a more distant member of the Dutch Royal Family. He is a first cousin of King Willem-Alexander and Carlos, Duke of Parma.

Life and career

Guillermo was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands, as the eldest child and son of Princess Christina and Havana-born Cuban exile Jorge Pérez y Guillermo. His mother was the youngest child of Queen Juliana and of Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. He has one younger brother Nicolás Guillermo (born 1979) and one younger sister Juliana Guillermo (born 1981). Guillermo and his siblings did not receive any royal title because his mother Princess Christina, at that time ninth in line for the Dutch throne, renounced her, and her children's, rights to the throne before converting to Catholicism and marrying a commoner, his father, in 1975. His paternal uncle is the American Professor of Film Studies Gilberto Pérez y Guillermo.

Guillermo was born and raised in Wassenaar, near The Hague, the Netherlands. He moved to New York City in 1994 and has been living in there since. In 1996, he attended Sarah Lawrence College where he studied philosophy and art history. Subsequently Guillermo studied industrial design at the prestigious Pratt Institute from 2002 to 2005.

His work was selected for exhibition at Brooklyn Designs in 2005, and at the 2008 DWR Modern-Design-Function exhibit in New York. His work has been published in the May 2005 issue of the magazine Wallpaper, in which he has been described as one of 10 Most Wanted Designers, and in the December 2005 issue of ArtReview.

Bernardo Guillermo's design studio is based in the Brooklyn Navy Yard area where he and his friends work as a freelancer for the City of New York.

Marriage and children

On 2 March 2009 in a civil ceremony in New York City, he married Eva Marie Valdez, an editor, who has worked for several New York publishing houses, including Rizzoli. She had previously been married to Andrew Michael Prinz. Their religious wedding ceremony took place on 5 September 2009 at the Queen of All Saints Church in Brooklyn, at which many members of Dutch Royal Family were present. Together they have two children, a girl and a boy:

• Isabel Christina Guillermo (born 13 April 2009),
• Julián Jorge Guillermo (born 21 September 2011).

Ancestry

Family of Bernardo Guillermo

16.               8.                       17.               4. Federico Gilberto Pérez y Castillo                             18.               9.                       19.               2. Jorge Pérez y Guillermo                                   20.               10.                       21.               5. Edenia Mercedes Guillermo y Marrero                             22.               11.                       23.               1. Bernardo Federico Tomás Guillermo                                         24. Ernest II, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld               12. Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld                       25. Countess Karoline of Wartensleben               6. Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld                             26. Baron Aschwin of Sierstorpff-Cramm               13. Armgard of Sierstorpff-Cramm                       27. Baroness Hedwig of Sierstorpff-Driburg               3. Princess Christina of the Netherlands                                   28. Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin               14. Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin                       29. Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt               7. Juliana of the Netherlands                             30. William III of the Netherlands               15. Wilhelmina of the Netherlands                       31. Princess Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont

References

• Bernardo Guillermo - website Royalty Online (Dutch)
• Biography - official website of Bernardo Guillermo
• Genealogy - Ancestors of Eva Valdez