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Originally Posted by GreenTeaFrapp
Or royalty. But for that they declare the room they give birth in as temporarily part of the country the royalty is from.
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Princess Margriet of the Netherlands was born in Ottawa during WWII.
From Wikipedia (and I recall hearing this story when I visited Ottawa in the early 80s)
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The Princess was born in Ottawa, Ontario, as the family had been living in Canada since June 1940 after the occupation of the Netherlands by Nazi Germany. The maternity ward of Ottawa Civic Hospital in which Princess Margriet was born was temporarily declared to be extraterritorial by the Canadian government. Making the maternity ward outside of the Canadian domain caused it to be unaffiliated with any jurisdiction and technically international territory. This ensured that the Princess would derive her citizenship from her mother only, thus making her solely Dutch. It is a common misconception that the Canadian government declared the maternity ward to be Dutch territory, however, this would have been impossible for the Canadian government to do without the acquiescence of the ruling government of the Netherlands, which at the time would have been the occupying German forces.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes...he_Netherlands
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