Wilhelmine of the Netherlands
Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria van Oranje-Nassau ( Wilhelmine of Orange-Nassau in French), born August 31st 1880, dead the November 28th 1962, was queen of the Netherlands of 1890 with 1948.
Girl of Guillaume III of the Netherlands, born from a very late union, it succeeds the November 23rd to him 1890, but remains under the regency of her mother Emma de Waldeck-Pyrmont until in 1898.
She marries in 1901 Henri de Mecklembourg-Schwerin, the last wire of Frederic-François II of Mecklembourg-Schwerin, of which she had an only daughter, Juliana, born in 1909, and in favor of who she abdicates the September 4th 1948, 50 years year of her effective reign.
Although last queen to be girl of an Orange-Nassau, this dynasty remains under the reign of her Juliana daughter and that of her grand-daughter Beatrix. The current members of the royal house of the Netherlands bear the name neerlandized D Oranje-Nassau .
Wilhelmine of the Netherlands belonged to the sixth branch (Nassau-Dietz) resulting from the second branch (Nassau-Dillenbourg) of the Maison of Nassau. This line of Nassau-Dietz today Orange-Nassau belongs to the stem ottonienne which gave in the past of the stathouders to the Holland, the Frise, the Zealand, the Gueldre, a king with the England and the Scotland in the person of Guillaume III of Orange-Nassau, kings and queens with the Netherlands.
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