Bernardo Federico Tomás Guillermo is a furniture designer and a more distant member of the Dutch Royal Family.
Background
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.
Education
Sarah Lawrence College. Pratt Institute.
Career
He is a first cousin of King Willem-Alexander and Carlos, Duke of Parma. He has one younger brother Nicolás Guillermo (born 1979) and one younger sister Juliana Guillermo (born 1981). 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 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.
Membership
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.