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The exact rules surrounding these stipends are to be determined by law, as is the list of members of the royal house who also receive them. [ Cons 31 ] Under current Dutch law the monarch receives their annual stipend which is part of the annual budget, as do the heir-apparent (if of age), the spouse of the monarch, the spouse of the heir ...
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".
List of monarchs of Frisia (including the kings/dukes of Frisia (600–775), counts of Frisia (775–885), and counts of Holland and West-Frisia (885–1433)) List of counts and dukes of Guelders; List of counts of Hainaut; List of counts of Holland and West Frisia (see also List of rulers of Frisia#House of West Frisia) List of counts and ...
Willem-Alexander (Dutch: [ˈʋɪləm aːlɛkˈsɑndər]; Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand; born 27 April 1967) is King of the Netherlands.. 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.
The Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, pronounced [ˈkoːnɪŋkrɛiɡ dɛr ˈneːdərlɑndə(n)] ⓘ; [h], West Frisian: Keninkryk fan Nederlân, Papiamento: Reino Hulandes), commonly known simply as the Netherlands, [i] is a sovereign state consisting of a collection of constituent territories united under the monarch of the Netherlands, who functions as head of state.
The most famous of these, "The Interest van Holland" was published in 1662 and immediately became a bestseller in Holland and later also elsewhere. The book contained an analysis of the miraculous economic success of Holland, the leading province of the Dutch Republic, and then set out to establish the economic and political principles on which ...
The Netherlands is a parliamentary representative democracy.A constitutional monarchy, the country is organised as a decentralised unitary state. [1] The Netherlands can be described as a consociational state. [2]
The King (King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands), the current head of the royal house, oldest child of Queen Beatrix; The Queen (Queen Máxima), wife of the King . The Princess of Orange (Catharina-Amalia), eldest child of the King and Queen