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.

[6] Jorge Guillermo also had an older brother, named after their father, Gilberto Perez (1943–2015), who later became an American Professor of Film Studies.

Despite coming from a highly intellectualized family, there are indications that Jorge Guillermo did not share his elder brother's appetite for scholarship.

[4] Circa 1973, Guillermo moved to New York City, where he became involved in the work of the charismatic poet-educator Frank "Ned" O'Gorman, a friend whom he had known since 1971.

[5] At one point, Guillermo and O'Gorman became surrogate parents for one of the children attending the center after his grandmother failed to retrieve the boy at the end of the day.

Christina was, at the time, studying for a teaching diploma while also attending lectures and engaging as a semi-detached member of the student community at the University of Groningen.

[14] She also gave private singing lessons[4] and worked as a volunteer music teacher at Ned O'Gorman's "Storefront school" in Harlem.

[5] Elsewhere, it is asserted that Guillermo was introduced to Christina van Oranje as early as 1972[8] at a dinner party arranged by a mutual friend,[4] though at this stage he was unaware of her royal family connections.

[8] Their engagement was announced, formally, by the Dutch national press agency on 14 February 1975,[4][c] though among friends the princess continued to introduce Guillermo simply as her "boyfriend".

[4] During a press conference that the two of them held to face questions arising from their engagement, Guillermo demonstrated a relaxed approach more redolent of New York than of a royal court.

[d][4] Jorge Guillermo and Princess Christina married on 28 June 1975, in the townhall at Baarn, which is the administrative center for the district that includes the royal palace at Soestdijk.

[18] Having failed to obtain permission from the States General (Dutch parliament) ahead of her marriage to Guillermo, Princess Christina automatically lost her right to the throne.

[19] However, although the matter is reported in a number of sources, as the youngest of four royal siblings, with at least six of her nieces and nephews ranking ahead of her in order of precedence when it came to the succession, any sacrifice involved was largely a theoretical one.

By not involving parliament in her decision to marry, the princess also avoided any discussions on the delicate and far from settled constitutional issues arising from her having chosen a Roman Catholic spouse.

Using the cut-price flight tickets provided to Jorge as part of his remuneration package from KLM, they acquired a reputation for being willing to fly "to anywhere they heard of art works of special interest for sale".

The Queen agreed to the construction of a family home for the Guillermos on the site of a former manor house at Eikenhorst in the royal park at De Horsten, on the edge of the prosperous commuter suburb of Wassenaar.

[26] A decade earlier, when the Guillermos were newly married, Princess Christina had spoken of her longing to live with her husband in a "simple family apartment".

[21] An article appeared in De Telegraaf about a visit the couple made to an Amsterdam restaurant: it was alleged that Guillermo groped female serving personnel, apparently secure in the belief that his visually impaired wife was unable to know what was happening.

[31] The couple had lived in relative seclusion for some years: there was more than a hint of gleeful mock-surprise expressed in newspapers over the extent of the accumulated art collection that was auctioned.

In London, the young Juliana enrolled at the Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design in preparation for a career as an artist.

[36] At some stage early during the twenty-first century, Jorge Guillermo moved to the small town of Condom in the hill-country to the west of Toulouse in south-western France.

The magazine had reported that Guillermo was living in southern France with an American priest: it was stated or implied that the two men were in a gay relationship.

The Privé editor Evert Santegoeds explained to reporters that there was no dispute between the parties that Guillermo was living with an American priest.

The agreement was endorsed by the court: Guillermo's requirement that Privé should produce no more stories about his private life was rejected by the magazine.

The story was then taken on by Weekend which undertook detailed research that included interviews with O'Gorman, inspection of his personal diaries and of his published memoires.

The court determined that the contentious stories were lawful and correct ("rechtmatig en juist"): Guillermo lost his case and received an order to pay the defendants' costs.