Queen Beatrix with her second son, Prince Johan Friso, his wife Princess Mabel and their daughter Countess Luana. The baby's name comes from Old German and means 'gracious warrior'
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Little Luana sucks on a queenly fingertip
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25 APRIL 2005

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The youngest Dutch royal has made her first visit to the Netherlands, where she was greeted by her grandmother Queen Beatrix this weekend.

The monarch welcomed her son, Prince Johan Friso and his wife Princess Mabel, for a very special family reunion at which they presented one-month-old Countess Luana. Gathered at the Huis ten Bosch palace on the outskirts of The Hague, the royals posed for first official pictures of the little girl, who was born in London on March 26.

Luana is the queen's fourth grandchild, and Beatrix, whose husband Prince Claus passed away three years ago, was obviously delighted to hold the baby countess and let her nibble on a royal fingertip during the photo shoot.

Johan Friso is the second of the queen's three sons but is no longer in line to the throne - he denounced all claims when he decided to go ahead with his marriage to Mabel after it emerged that she had previously been linked with a major drug trafficker. The couple tied the knot on April 24 last year.

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