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Wilhelmina (Dutch pronunciation: [ʋɪlɦɛlˈminaː] ⓘ; Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria; 31 August 1880 – 28 November 1962) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948. She reigned for nearly 58 years, making her the longest-reigning monarch in Dutch history, as well as the longest-reigning female monarch outside ...
On 1 October 1791, she married her cousin William of the Netherlands, son of Stadtholder William V, Prince of Orange and Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia, in Berlin.The marriage was arranged as a part of an alliance between the House of Orange and Prussia, but it was also, in fact, a love match and became a happy one. [1]
Pages in category "Wilhelmina of the Netherlands" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Inauguration of Queen Wilhelmina in Amsterdam, in Dutch Inhuldiging van Koningin Wilhelmina te Amsterdam, is a short documentary film from 1898, directed by early Dutch film pioneer F.A. Nöggerath snr. [2]
Princess Wilhelmina of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, (1751–1780), Princess of Nassau-Saarbrücken; Wilhelmine of Prussia (1774–1837), German princess and later queen of the Netherlands; Princess Wilhelmine of Baden (1788–1836), German Grand Duchess of Hess and the Rhine; Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt (1755–1776), German princess and Tsarevna ...
The Queen's unusual action was later ratified by the States General of the Netherlands in 1946. Churchill called her "the only man in the Dutch government". [6] After World War II ended, Wilhelmina and her government returned from exile to re-establish a regime more democratic than ever before. [7]
The family returned to the Netherlands on 2 August 1945. Beatrix went to the progressive primary school De Werkplaats in Bilthoven run by pacifist social reformers Kees Boeke and Beatrice Boeke-Cadbury. Her third sister Princess Christina was born in 1947. [4] On 6 September 1948, her mother succeeded her grandmother Wilhelmina as Queen of the ...
Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia (Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina; 7 August 1751 in Berlin – 9 June 1820 in Het Loo) was the consort of William V of Orange and the de facto leader of the dynastic party and counter-revolution in the Netherlands.