Not to be confused with Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands.
Wilhelmina
Wilhelmina in the late 1940s
Queen of the Netherlands
Reign
23 November 1890 – 4 September 1948
Inauguration
6 September 1898
Predecessor
William III
Successor
Juliana
Regents
Queen Emma (1890–1898) Princess Juliana (1947–1948)
Born
Princess Pauline of Orange-Nassau (1880-08-31)31 August 1880 Noordeinde Palace, The Hague, Netherlands
Died
28 November 1962(1962-11-28) (aged 82) Het Loo Palace, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Burial
8 December 1962
Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, Netherlands
Spouse
Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
(m. 1901; died 1934)
Issue
Juliana of the Netherlands
Names
Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria
House
Orange-Nassau
Father
William III of the Netherlands
Mother
Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Religion
Dutch Reformed Church
Signature
Queen Wilhelmina's voice
Queen Wilhelmina (third voice heard in recording) while in exile speaks to the Dutch people under Nazi occupation (recorded Mar 16, 1942)
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 the United Kingdom. Her reign saw World War I, the Dutch economic crisis of 1933 and World War II.
The only surviving child of King William III of the Netherlands and Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Wilhelmina ascended the throne at the age of 10 after her father's death in 1890, under her mother's regency. After taking charge of government, Wilhelmina became generally popular for maintaining Dutch neutrality during the First World War and solving many of her country's industrial problems. By that time, her business ventures had made her the world's first female billionaire in dollars.[1]
Following the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940, Wilhelmina fled to Britain and took charge of the Dutch government-in-exile. She frequently spoke to the nation over radio and came to be regarded as a symbol of the resistance[1] although she was criticised for failing to acknowledge some of the atrocities such as the Bombing of Nijmegen. By 1948, she had returned to the liberated Netherlands and was the only survivor of the 16 monarchs who were sitting on their thrones at the time of her inauguration.[2] Increasingly beset by poor health, Wilhelmina abdicated in favour of her daughter Juliana in September 1948 and retired to Het Loo Palace, where she died in 1962.
She remains reasonably popular in the Netherlands, even among the Dutch Republican movement.[3] This is due to her being seen as a symbol of Dutch Resistance during World War II.
^ ab"Wilhelmina of Netherlands Dies" (UPI), The New York Times, 28 November 1962. pp. A1–A39.
^"Queen Wilhelmina". Life. Vol. 25, no. 7. 16 August 1948. p. 83. ISSN 0024-3019.
^Fitzwilliams, Richard (30 April 2013). "What Dutch 'Bicycling Royals' Can Teach World's Royals". Cable News Network (CNN).
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