Eva Vlaardingerbroek

Vlaardingerbroek was born on 3 September 1996 in Amsterdam to a Roman Catholic mother and a Protestant father, both of whom work in the classical music industry. Her father, {{Ill|Kees Vlaardingerbroek|nl}}, is a musicologist and former concert director. She has a younger brother, and her paternal grandfather was a Dutch Reformed pastor. She was baptized as a child in the Protestant faith.{{Cite web |date=23 April 2023 |title=Prominent Dutch Philosopher and Convert Charts Her Path to the Catholic Church |url=https://www.ncregister.com/interview/prominent-dutch-philosopher-and-convert-charts-her-path-to-the-catholic-church |access-date=27 October 2024 |website=NCR |language=en}}

Vlaardingerbroek grew up in Hilversum and studied law at Utrecht University, where she participated in the Utrecht Law College honours program. After studying for some time in Germany at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and completing her bachelor's degree, she began the master's degree in Encyclopedia and Philosophy of Law at Leiden University. She wrote her thesis on The Contractualization of Sex in the #MeToo Era and completed her master's with honours.{{cite magazine|last=Vlaardingerbroek|first=Eva|date=2 February 2020|title=Houd de overheid uit uw slaapkamer: gevaren van een nieuwe zedenwet|url=https://www.ewmagazine.nl/nederland/achtergrond/2020/02/houd-de-overheid-uit-uw-slaapkamer-738209/|language=nl|magazine=Elsevier Weekblad|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201105202250/https://www.ewmagazine.nl/nederland/achtergrond/2020/02/houd-de-overheid-uit-uw-slaapkamer-738209/ |access-date=11 April 2023|archive-date=5 November 2020 }}

During her studies, Vlaardingerbroek joined political party Forum for Democracy (FvD) in 2016. In 2019, she gave a speech against modern feminism at that year's party congress.{{cite web|url=https://www.ewmagazine.nl/nederland/achtergrond/2020/01/vlaardingerbroek-idealisme-naar-boven-193866w/|title='Juist na zo'n aanval komt idealisme in me naar boven'|publisher=EW Magazine|date=January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127025303/https://www.ewmagazine.nl/nederland/achtergrond/2020/01/vlaardingerbroek-idealisme-naar-boven-193866w/ |accessdate=12 March 2023|archive-date=27 November 2020 |language=Dutch}} In 2019, she took up an internship with the FvD faction in the European Parliament in Brussels. After that, Vlaardingerbroek left Brussels behind to work in Leiden as a lecturer-researcher, during which she published several opinion pieces in Elsevier Weekblad. In October 2020, she put her position at the university and her dissertation on hold to focus fully on a political career, followed by FvD leader Thierry Baudet's announcement on 31 October that Vlaardingerbroek would fill the fifth spot on the party's candidate list for the House of Representatives.{{cn|date=January 2024}}

After a dispute over Baudet's leadership and discriminatory remarks made by members of the youth wing publicly escalated in November 2020,{{cite news|date=21 November 2020|title='Jongeren FvD blijven extreemrechtse berichten versturen'|url=https://nos.nl/artikel/2357471-jongeren-fvd-blijven-extreemrechtse-berichten-versturen|language=nl|work=Nederlandse Omroep Stichting|access-date=11 April 2023}}{{cite news|date=25 November 2020|title=Brief over Baudet vol ruzie en complottheorieën|url=https://nos.nl/artikel/2358110-brief-over-baudet-vol-ruzie-en-complottheorieen|language=nl|work=Nederlandse Omroep Stichting|access-date=11 April 2023}} Vlaardingerbroek announced on WNL's morning show Goedemorgen Nederland on 26 November that she had chosen sides against Baudet.{{cite web|url=https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/politiek/artikel/5199376/hoofdrolspelers-rel-forum-voor-democratie|title=Dit zijn de hoofdrolspelers in de rel rond Forum voor Democratie|website=RTL Nieuws|date=26 November 2020|accessdate=12 March 2023|language=Dutch}} Later that same day, Vlaardingerbroek and Joost Eerdmans, Annabel Nanninga, and Nicki Pouw-Verweij released a joint statement announcing their departure from the party.{{cite news|date=26 November 2020|title=Eerdmans, Nanninga, Pouw en Vlaardingerbroek weg bij FvD|url=https://www.trouw.nl/politiek/eerdmans-nanninga-pouw-en-vlaardingerbroek-weg-bij-fvd~b9405692/|language=nl|work=Trouw|access-date=11 April 2023}} At the time this meant the end of Vlaardingerbroek's political career. In April 2023, Algemeen Dagblad published an exposé that revealed how in 2021, months after the conflict and split, FvD had threatened her and other former members with hefty fines for allegedly breaching party confidentiality. Vlaardingerbroek was never officially served nor found guilty of breaching party confidentiality and described it as an attempt to scare her into silence.{{cite news|last1=Nieuwenhuis|first1=Marcia|last2=Hartog|first2=Tobias den|date=8 April 2023|title=Klachten over verziekte werksfeer bij Forum: 'Het beest was ontwaakt, Thierry ging helemaal los op mij'|url=https://www.ad.nl/politiek/klachten-over-verziekte-werksfeer-bij-forum-het-beest-was-ontwaakt-thierry-ging-helemaal-los-op-mij~a0c44d07/|language=nl|work=Algemeen Dagblad|access-date=11 April 2023}}

In November 2023, Vlaardingerbroek stated that she would vote for the Party for Freedom (PVV) in the 2023 Dutch general election.{{cite tweet||user=EvaVlaar|number=1726897365754523746|title=Ik stem morgen op de PVV, specifiek op @Martinbosma_pvv.|language=nl}}

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In December 2019, Het Parool stated that Vlaardingerbroek "shocked the feminist Netherlands with a speech against modern feminism",{{cite web|url=https://www.parool.nl/columns-opinie/rechts-handelt-uit-sentiment-en-verliest-de-realiteit-uit-het-oog~bedbca98/|title='Rechts handelt uit sentiment en verliest de realiteit uit het oog'|website=Het Parool|date=19 December 2019|accessdate=12 March 2023|language=Dutch}} in which she called it "a form of hardcore cognitive dissonance". She stated that "neo-feminists have no reflection on what is retrograde or problematic about multiculturalism, especially on the subject that interests them: sexism. So, this feminism is indeed one of the biggest shams of our time."{{cite web|url=https://www.causeur.fr/eva-vlaardingerbroek-immigration-neofeminisme-2-171369|title=Le féminisme à la sauce Schiappa renforce le nationalisme |publisher=Causeur|language=French|date=16 January 2020|accessdate=12 March 2023}} She received scathing criticism by a number of Dutch commentators for her remarks, after Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant and some of their journalists branded Vlaardingerbroek the "shield maiden of the far right" and an "Aryan princess" who constituted a danger to the rights of women and minorities.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1985305764/dienstmaagd-van-radicaal-rechts-toont-ware-gezicht|title=Dienstmaagd van radicaal rechts toont ware gezicht|publisher=De Telegraaf|date=14 December 2019|accessdate=12 March 2023|language=Dutch}}{{Cite web |title=GeenStijl: Volkskrant zou Eva Vlaardingerbroek doen |url=https://www.geenstijl.nl/5150928/volkskrant-zou-eva-vlaardingerbroek-doen/ |access-date=23 October 2023 |website=www.geenstijl.nl |language=nl}} In an interview with Bert Dijkstra of De Telegraaf, Vlaardingerbroek fought back, calling the article a politically motivated "character assassination". Vlaardingerbroek has also spoken against abortion, arguing that life begins at conception.{{cite news|last1=Nieuwenhuis|first1=Marcia|last2=Hartog|first2=Tobias den|date=7 September 2023|title=Eva Vlaardingerbroek spreekt zich uit tegen abortus: 'Leven is heilig'|url=https://stirezo.nl/artikelen/eva-vlaardingerbroek-spreekt-zich-uit-tegen-abortus-leven-is-heilig|language=nl|work=Stirezo PRO LIFE|access-date=12 September 2023}}

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Vlaardingerbroek spoke out as a firm critic of lockdowns, mRNA vaccines, and other COVID-19 restrictions, stating that the Western world was "losing its freedom".{{Citation |title=Dear Western World: we're losing our freedom. | date=29 November 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn1OGlQTa2Q |access-date=23 October 2023 |language=en}} In January 2021, Vlaardingerbroek made a live appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight stating that Europe was "heading towards a new system, a tyrannical regime, of mass surveillance and control".{{Cite web |date=19 January 2022 |title=Legal expert: European vaccine mandates are the beginning of a 'social credit system' {{!}} Fox News Video |url=https://www.foxnews.com/video/6292487785001 |access-date=23 October 2023 |website=Fox News |language=en-US}} Also in 2021, Vlaardingerbroek worked for some time in Sweden as presenter of her own pan-European talk show "Let's Talk About It" on the YouTube channel of Swedish media outlet Riks, which is affiliated with the far-right party Sverigedemokraterna.{{cite web|url=https://www.geenstijl.nl/5158409/let-s-talk-about-it/|title=Eva Vlaar gaat internationaal met eigen talkshow|publisher=Geenstijl|date=29 March 2021|accessdate=12 March 2023|language=Dutch}} On 1 January 2022, she began working as a legal advisor at a law firm, where she focused on human rights and civil litigation.{{cite web|url=https://www.leidschdagblad.nl/cnt/dmf20211203_37582195|title=Spraakmakende Leidse juristen Blommestijn en Vlaardingerbroek naar nieuwe mensenrechtensectie van Maes Law (video)|website= Leidsch Dagblad|date=4 December 2021 |accessdate=12 March 2023}} After more than four months, this employment was terminated.{{cite web|url=https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/advocaat-is-coronazaken-zat-en-zegt-samenwerking-met-bekende-critici-op~a69e40b6/|title=Advocaat is coronazaken zat en zegt samenwerking met bekende critici op|publisher=Algemeen Dagblad|accessdate=12 March 2023|language=Dutch}}

In early July 2022, Vlaardingerbroek spoke out about the Dutch nitrogen crisis on the American television channel Fox News in conversation with Tucker Carlson.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/976988860/boeren-blijven-wereldnieuws|title=Boeren blijiven wereldnieuws|publisher=De Telegraaf|date=9 July 2022|accessdate=12 March 2023|language=Dutch}} In reference to the Great Replacement and Great Reset conspiracy theories, she argued that the crisis was being used to steal land from farmers in order to build homes on it for immigrants.{{cite web|url=https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/tijd-om-deze-krankzinnige-periode-vanuit-een-ander-perspectief-te-bezien~b5b2ad79/|title=Tijd om deze krankzinnige periode vanuit een ander perspectief te bezien|date=8 July 2022 |publisher=de Volkskrant|language=Dutch|accessdate=12 March 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://www.grid.news/story/misinformation/2022/07/13/why-tucker-carlson-and-the-global-right-wing-have-taken-up-the-cause-of-dutch-farmers/|title=Why Tucker Carlson and the global right wing have taken up the cause of Dutch farmers|publisher=Grid News|date=13 July 2022|accessdate=12 March 2023|archive-date=18 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220718154412/https://www.grid.news/story/misinformation/2022/07/13/why-tucker-carlson-and-the-global-right-wing-have-taken-up-the-cause-of-dutch-farmers/|url-status=dead}}

Vlaardingerbroek regularly appears as a commentator on Mark Steyn's talk show on the British television channel GB News,{{cite web|url=https://www.steynonline.com/13292/we-laughed-no-more|title=We Laughed No More|website=Steynonline.com|date=March 2023 |accessdate=12 March 2023}} as well as on the right-wing populist YouTube channel Achtung, Reichelt! by Julian Reichelt, the former editor-in-chief of the German tabloid Bild.{{cn|date=January 2024}} On 11 March 2023, Vlaardingerbroek participated in the pro-farmer Zuiderpark protest against the government in The Hague.{{cite web|url=https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/vlaardingerbroek-weg-bij-zaterdagmatinee-wegens-discriminatie-en-wangedrag|title='Vlaardingerbroek weg bij Zaterdagmatinee wegens discriminatie en wangedrag'|website=BNNVARA|accessdate=12 March 2023|language=Dutch}} At the protests, Vlaardingerbroek stated that "our farmers are fighting against the worst kind of injustice".{{cite web|url=https://article.wn.com/view/2023/03/12/Eva_Vlaardingerbroek_Our_farmers_are_fighting_against_the_wo/|title=Eva Vlaardingerbroek: Our farmers are fighting against the worst kind of injustice|publisher=World News Network|date=12 March 2023|accessdate=12 March 2023}}

She has an active presence on Twitter, where she has one million followers. She describes herself as a “Shieldmaiden of the right”.{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/EvaVlaar|title=Eva Vlaardingerbroek|publisher=Twitter|accessdate=December 22, 2024}} At CPAC 2024, Vlaardingerbroek asserted that the Great Replacement conspiracy theory is real, citing that 56 percent of the population of Amsterdam, where she lives, consists of immigrants.{{efn|According to Reuters, this percentage includes Amsterdam residents “with a migration background,” meaning that at least one parent was born abroad. Direct immigrants consist of 37 percent of Amsterdam’s population.{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/migrants-are-not-majority-london-brussels-amsterdam-2024-05-31/|title=Fact Check: Migrants are not the majority in London, Brussels and Amsterdam|first=Eva|last=Vlaardingerbroek|publisher=Reuters|date=May 31, 2024}}}} She added, “I think we all know what they mean with the word ‘diversity.’ It means less white people. Less of you,” apparently addressing the audience.{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/EvaVlaar/status/1788566657188700661 |title=The Great Replacement is real: The white, native European population is already outnumbered in many of its major cities. And our establishment celebrates this fact.|first=Eva|last=Vlaardingerbroek|publisher=Twitter|date=May 9, 2024}}

Until late 2020, Vlaardingerbroek was in a relationship with French author Julien Rochedy, who served as president of Génération Nation, the youth wing of the French right-wing populist party Front National from 2012 to 2014.{{cite web |date=14 December 2019 |title=Dienstmaagd van radicaal rechts' toont ware gezicht |url=https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1985305764/dienstmaagd-van-radicaal-rechts-toont-ware-gezicht |accessdate=12 March 2023 |newspaper=De Telegraaf}}{{cite web |date=11 December 2020 |title=Liefdesrelatie met Thierry? Meer een kwestie van: foutje, bedankt |url=https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/864239026/liefdesrelatie-met-thierry-meer-een-kwestie-van-foutje-bedankt |accessdate=12 March 2023 |language=Dutch |newspaper=De Telegraaf}}

In November 2020, during the conflict within the FvD, Vlaardingerbroek publicly opposed party leader Thierry Baudet, who then revealed that they had had a brief affair in 2017.{{cite web |date=November 2020 |title=Pijnlijke tv: Thierry Baudet verdrietig na uitspraken ex-geliefde |url=https://www.mediacourant.nl/2020/11/pijnlijke-tv-thierry-baudet-verdrietig-na-uitspraken-ex-geliefde/ |accessdate=12 March 2023 |publisher=Media Courant |language=Dutch}} Vlaardingerbroek responded by clarifying that it had been nothing more than a fleeting relationship.{{cite web |date=11 December 2020 |title=Eva Vlaardingerbroek over 'liefdesrelatie' met Thierry Baudet: 'Het was een fling' |url=https://www.linda.nl/nieuws/media/eva-vlaardingerbroek-liefdes-relatie-thierry-baudet-fling/ |accessdate=12 March 2023 |website=Linda.nl |language=Dutch}}

In late 2021, PragerU co-founder Dennis Prager introduced Will Witt, an American former PragerU commentator, to Vlaardingerbroek.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=daB9cMQsRWI |title=PBD Podcast {{!}} EP 138 {{!}} Influencer Will Witt |date=31 March 2022 |last=PBD Podcast |access-date=27 October 2024 |via=YouTube}} In a since-deleted Instagram post, Witt announced their engagement on 29 March 2022.{{Cite web |last=Witt |first=Will |date=29 March 2022 |title=God created the world, the Dutch created the Netherlands, and Eva made Will the happiest man on earth |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbspl7CNVsR/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426093121/https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbspl7CNVsR/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 April 2023 |access-date=27 October 2024 |website=www.instagram.com}}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTx587GUrSc |title=Timcast IRL - GOP Turnout SHATTERS Records As Democrats QUIT Party And Vote Republican w/Will Witt |date=25 May 2022 |last=Timcast IRL |access-date=27 October 2024 |via=YouTube}} The engagement later ended at an unspecified time.

In April 2023, Vlaardingerbroek and her father were confirmed as Roman Catholics in the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham at the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St. Gregory in London.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dROCOCt4nU |title=Eva Vlaardingerbroek on Becoming Catholic |date=11 July 2024 |last=EWTN |access-date=27 October 2024 |via=YouTube}}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU39AaS_leU |title=How Politics Led to the Downfall of the Dutch Government {{!}} Eva Vlaardingerbroek EP 31 |date=28 July 2023 |last=Tammy Peterson |access-date=27 October 2024 |via=YouTube}}{{Cite web |last=Vlaardingerbroek |first=Eva |date=23 April 2023 |title=My father and I were both confirmed and received into the Holy Catholic Church, today at the Ordinariate in London. Full of peace and joy at following the Truth and finding Home. I'm officially Eva Lotte Louise Joan Vlaardingerbroek now. ✝️ |url=https://www.instagram.com/eva.vlaar/p/CrYYwaVoRsY/?img_index=1 |access-date=27 October 2024 |website=www.instagram.com}} She chose the confirmation name Joan in honor of Saint Joan of Arc.{{Cite web |last=Vlaardingerbroek |first=Eva |date=30 April 2023 |title=When I became a Catholic last week, I chose St. Joan of Arc as my Confirmation Saint. I admire her courage and faithfulness immensely and hope to emulate her virtues in my life with the help of God Our Father. |url=https://x.com/EvaVlaar/status/1652690981756575746 |access-date=26 October 2024 |website=X}}{{Cite web |last=Vlaardingerbroek |first=Eva |date=30 May 2023 |title="I am not afraid, for God is with me. I was born for this!" Today is the Feast Day of St. Joan of Arc and therefore my first Name Day as a Catholic. 🙏🏻✝️ |url=https://x.com/EvaVlaar/status/1663496937658806273?lang=en |website=X}}

On 13 July 2024, Vlaardingerbroek married Francesco Gargallo di Castel Lentini, an Italian lawyer based in Rome, in a Roman Catholic ceremony.{{Cite web |title=Francesco Gargallo di Castel Lentini |url=https://www.heraldeditore.it/autori/francesco-gargallo-di-castel-lentini/ |access-date=1 August 2024 |website=Herald Editore |language=it-IT}} https://x.com/evavlaar/status/1812954973216387123?s=46&t=4rGleTIYqGNtOJFJ9P8qXQ On 11 October 2024, Vlaardingerbroek announced that she was pregnant with their first child.{{Cite web |last=Vlaardingerbroek |first=Eva |date=11 October 2024 |title=My husband Francesco and I are expecting our first child and we couldn't be happier. Greatest blessing of our life! ❤️❤️❤️ |url=https://www.instagram.com/eva.vlaar/p/DA_SSiPIG_b/ |access-date=27 October 2024 |website=www.instagram.com}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.utenfilter.no/2024/10/12/eva-vlaardingerbroek-har-giftet-seg-og-venter-barn/ |title=Eva Vlaardingerbroek har giftet seg og venter barn: Nytt kapittel åpner seg for den nederlandske skjønnheten. |website=utenfilter.no |date=2024-10-12 |language=no |access-date=2025-01-06}} In December 2024, the couple welcomed their son.{{Cite web |last=Vlaardingerbroek |first=Eva |date=December 24, 2024 |title=Our son Filippo Leonard Gargallo di Castel Lentini was born on 19-12-2024. We love him more than words can describe. |url=https://www.instagram.com/eva.vlaar/p/DD-po7KIKzr/?hl=en |url-status=live |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=www.instagram.com}}

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