Jorge Guillermo

Jorge Pérez y Guillermo (born August 1, 1946) was the husband of Princess Christina of the Netherlands between 1975 and the couple's divorce in late 1996. He was accordingly brother-in-law to Queen Beatrix between 1980 and 1996. He is also a noted art collector. Since 1996, he has generally avoided gratuitous publicity.

Life

Family provenance and early years

Jorge Guillermo was born in Havana, Cuba where he attended school until 1960. Dr. Federico Gilberto Pérez y Castillo (1911–1967), his father, was a physician with connections to the political establishment. Prof. Edenia Mercedes Guillermo y Marrero (1925–2002), his mother, held a series of senior positions in education administration by 1960, combining her duties as director of education of the Province of Havana with a lectureship. Jorge Guillermo also had an older brother, named after their father, Gilberto Perez (1943–2015), who later became an American Professor of Film Studies. The decision that the family should leave the country was evidently taken, in the first instance, by Edenia Guillermo.