 He lived with his family at the castle Drakensteyn in the hamlet Lage Vuursche near Baarn from his birth until 1981, when they moved to the larger palace Huis ten Bosch in The Hague.His mother, Beatrix, became Queen of the Netherlands in 1980, after his grandmother Juliana abdicated.He then received the title of Prince of Orange as heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.