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Dutchman sentenced to 40 hours community service for insulting Argentine born Queen Maxima of the Netherlands

During an angry rant, he called mother-of-three Maxima - who was in Tokyo at the time - 'cancer w****' and the 'daughter of a murderer', according to local media.

Dutchman has been sentenced to 40 hours community service for insulting Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, after branding her the 'daughter of a murderer'.

The 63-year-old from Utrecht, made the comments last October in front of police officers, despite their warnings that insulting the Queen is illegal.

During an angry rant, he called mother-of-three Maxima - who was in Tokyo at the time - 'cancer w****' and the 'daughter of a murderer', according to local media.

Maxima's father Jorge Horacio Zorreguieta served as Minister of Agriculture in the 1976-83 military dictatorship of General Jorge Rafael Videla in Argentina.

Zorreguieta, who died in August 2017, denied knowing anything about human rights abuses committed under the junta.

However, he was kept away from his daughter's 2002 wedding to the now King Willem-Alexander because of the Dutch government's concern over his participation in the dictatorship.