Financial Times: Observer: Royal birth: “It was not only a newborn Royal Dutch Shell that those in The Hague welcomed yesterday.”: Wednesday 29 June 2005

Published: June 29 2005

It was not only a newborn Royal Dutch Shell that those in The Hague welcomed yesterday.

Down the road from the theatre where Royal Dutch shareholders bid farewell to a century of dual-headed governance by unifying their company with Shell, its British arm, the House of Orange - the most famous Shell investor - was registering the name of its own new arrival.

With Shell's listing going to London, Alexia, born at the weekend and third in line to the throne, joins sister Amalia and father Alex, the crown prince, in ensuring the survival of at least one triple-A establishment in the Netherlands.

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