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In 1806 Napoleon abolished the new republic and made his brother King of Holland. However, in 1810 Napoleon invaded the Netherlands and annexed them to France. In 1813, Allied forces drove out the French. The Dutch called back William Frederick, the son of the last stadtholder, to head the new government. He was proclaimed "sovereign prince".
Wife of King Rama IX of Thailand Princess Margriet of the Netherlands: 19 January 1961 King Hussein of Jordan: 1964 King of Jordan (1952–1999) Princess Christina of the Netherlands: 18 February 1965 Brigadier general Commodore: King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands: 27 April 1985 King of the Netherlands (since 2013) Grand Master (30/04/2013)
Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (born 1943) Princess Christina of the Netherlands (1947–2019) Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (born 1967), King; Máxima of the Netherlands (born 1971), Queen consort; Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau (1968–2013) Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands (born 1969) Princess Catharina-Amalia of the ...
10 March 2020 13 March 2020 Indonesia: 5 July 2021 7 July 2021 Germany [7] 27 June 2022 29 June 2022 Austria: 18 September 2022 19 September 2022 United Kingdom [8] Attended the state funeral of Elizabeth II: 30 January 2023 1 February 2023 Zimbabwe: 5 May 2023 6 May 2023 United Kingdom [9] Attended the coronation of Charles III and Camilla
Willem-Alexander (Dutch: [ˈʋɪləm aːlɛkˈsɑndər]; Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand; born 27 April 1967) is King of the Netherlands, reigning since 30 April 2013. Willem-Alexander was born in Utrecht during the reign of his maternal grandmother, Queen Juliana, as the eldest child of Princess Beatrix and Prince Claus.
In February 2023, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands took a two-week tour of the Caribbean with their daughter, Catharina-Amalia, to visit Aruba, Curaçao and St Maarten.
The following is a family tree for the Princes of Orange, a line which culminated in the Dutch monarchy with the accession of Prince William VI to the newly created throne of the Netherlands in 1815. Dates given are those of birth and death; for Princes of Orange (shown in bold), the intermediate date is the date of accession to the Princedom.
The Netherlands’ often brutal colonial history has come under renewed and critical scrutiny in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, in the U.S. city of Minneapolis on May ...