Veronica Gerarda van Amerongen was born on 4 December 1958 in Hilversum. After completing her pre-university education, she travelled through Europe from 1976 to 1979, working for organic farmers and employment agencies. From 1979 to 1984, she wrote articles for newspapers and magazines as a journalist. After 1984, she focused on tree surgery/tree care and took various training courses in this field. After a year of salaried employment, she started her own tree care company for pruning and advice/research. Since then, this has been her source of income. In addition, she studied archaeology part-time at the University of Amsterdam from 1987 to 1996. She completed this study with a doctoral thesis entitled Forests at the bottom of the sea. Dendrochronological research on peat oaks in the Netherlands, supervised by Esther Jansma. In 1994, she was certified as a tree appraiser by the Chamber of Commerce in Amsterdam; in 2008, she obtained the European Tree Technician (ETT) certificate.

Alongside her work, she studied musicology at the University of Amsterdam from 2009 to 2015, again on a part-time basis. She completed her studies in 2015 with a BA thesis entitled De dodendans en liedmuziek. Een thematische verwerking van de dodendans uit de vijftiende en zestiende eeuw in de Nederlanden (The Dance of Death and Song Music: A Thematic Analysis of the Dance of Death in the Netherlands in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries), supervised by Dr Eddie Vetter. In 2021, she obtained her PhD from Utrecht University with a thesis on female patronage of music in the Dutch Republic, supervised by Prof. Albert Clement and Prof. Ton Koopman, entitled Dames in majeur (Ladies in Major). Her book is published by Amsterdam University Press in 2022.