Dutch Monarchs Family Tree | William the Silent to Willem-Alexander

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  @UsefulCharts · 3 years ago · pinned

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  @QemeH · 3 years ago

  Ah, Queen Wilhelmina... the &quot;only man in the dutch government&quot; (as per Churchill) during the exile in London :D

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  @youtubecomment409 · 3 years ago

  Interesting fact that wasn&apos;t mentioned: in 1983 the Dutch changed the succession rules to absolute primogeniture, so that Willem-Alexander&apos;s daughter are still first in line, even if they somehow get a younger brother.<br>Netherlands was the second European monarchy to establish absolute primogeniture, after Sweden in 1980.

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  @untruelie2640 · 3 years ago

  Fun Fact: Adolph, the successor of William III. in Luxemburg, was originally the Duke of Nassau. However, his Duchy was conquered and annexed by Prussia as a result of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, so he lived as a private nobleman for almost 30 years until he inherited the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg in 1890.

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• GB

  @GBOAC · 3 years ago

  As a Dutchman, this made my day. &nbsp;Your videos are usually excellent but it gives a different sensation when it’s about your fatherland.

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  @CallieMasters5000 · 3 years ago

  Bonus fact: Queens Juliana and Beatrix both abdicated on the same holiday - April 30 (in 1980 and 2013) which is the monarch&apos;s national holiday (Kings/Queens Day), making it very easy to calculate their reigns. Also, after retiring, their title changed to princess instead of queen.

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• FA

  @Farhannibal · 3 years ago

  &quot;Grizzly Death&quot; By a mob is somehow an understatement

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  @avadriel1 · 3 years ago

  I love the development of the development of the Dutch monarchy, such as fascinating piece of history despite it being so young in comparison to other monarchies in Europe

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• BL

  @blankcanvas537 · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUDWkT5vOL4&amp;t=1142">19:02</a> Thanks for using my chart, I’m honoured

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  @Kastagaar · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUDWkT5vOL4&amp;t=376">6:16</a> for those wondering about the nature of Johan de Witt&apos;s grizzly death by the mob: he was at least partially eaten. &nbsp;As an inhabitant of the Netherlands, my only guess is that the members of the mob were on their way back from a football match, had had a couple of beers and a puff of the good stuff, and had the uncommon simultaneous ideas of going into politics and satisfying the munchies.

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  @keescouprie5968 · 2 years ago

  There are actually six lines between William the Silent and Willem Alexander. Or at least six lines that I know of.<br>1) The well known line through Albertine Agnes of Orange Nassau, the paternal grandmother of Johan Willem Friso.<br>2) Johan Willem Friso&apos;s maternal grandmother, Henriëtte Catharina of Nassau, was also a granddaughter of William the Silent, and therefore cousin of Albertine Agnes.<br>3) There is a little known line through queen-consort and regent Emma of Waldeck-Pyrmont, whose mother Helena of Nassau was a great-great-granddaughter of stadhouder William IV.<br>4) Johan Willem Friso&apos;s wife and mother of William IV, Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, descends from William the Silent through his daughter Catharina Belgica of Nassau<br>5) She also decends from William the Silent through his daughter Louise Juliana of Nassau and her granddaughter Hedwig Sofie van Brandenburg.<br>6) She also decends from William the Silent through (again) his daughter Louise Juliana of Nassau and her other granddaughter Louise Charlotte van Brandenburg.<br>The Nassaus like to keep it in the family. Not as belly as the Spanish Habsburgs, but still enough to raise some eyebrows.

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  @Tezz007 · 3 years ago

  Princess Irene was not removed from the line of succession for marrying a Catholic (although it probably contributed), but for marrying a pretender to the Spanish throne who as head of the Carlist faction was at that time actively trying to get Franco to name him as future king. The Dutch Government had no wish to get involved in the restoration of the Spanish monarchy or in the ongoing dispute between the competing factions of the exiled Spanish royals over succession rights. No attempt was made to get permission from the Dutch Parliament for the marriage, thus Irene lost her right to the Dutch throne. At Carlos Hugo&apos;s side she lobbied for Carlist succession in Spain throughout the 60s and 70s. In the end Carlos Hugo never did become king of Spain, as Franco chose Juan Carlos for his successor.

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