Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria; 31 August 1880 – 28 November 1962) was Queen of theKingdom of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948. She
reigned for nearly 58 years, longer than any other Dutchmonarch. Her reign saw World War I and World War
II, the economic crisis of 1933, and the decline of theNetherlands as a major colonial power. Outside theNetherlands she is primarily remembered for her role in
World War II, in which she proved to be a great inspiration to the Dutch resistance.[1]1King William III had three sons with his ﬁrst wife, Sophie
of Württemberg. However, when Wilhelmina was born,
William had already outlived two of them and only thechildless Prince Alexander and the King’s uncle Prince
Frederick of the Netherlands were alive, so under theSemi-Salic system of inheritance that was in place in the
Netherlands until 1887, she was third in line to the throne
from birth. When Prince Frederick died a year later in
1881, she became second in line. When Wilhelmina wasfour, Alexander died and the young girl became heir presumptive.
King William III died on 23 November 1890. Although
10-year-old Wilhelmina became queen of the Netherlands instantly, her mother, Emma, was named regent.

Early life

In 1895, Queen Wilhelmina visited Queen Victoria of theUnited Kingdom, who penned an evaluation in her diary:
The young Queen ... still has her hair
hanging loose. She is slender and graceful,and makes an impression as a very intelligent
and very cute girl. She speaks good English
and knows how to behave with charming manners.[1]1.1 Enthronement and marriage
Wilhelmina was enthroned on 6 September 1898.[2] On 7
February 1901 in The Hague, she married Duke Henry of
Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Nine months later, on 9 November, Wilhelmina suﬀered a miscarriage, and on 4 May
1902 she gave birth to a premature stillborn son. Her
next pregnancy ended in another miscarriage on 23 July
1906.[3] During this time period, Wilhelmina’s heir presumptive was her ﬁrst cousin once removed William
Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and next
in line was his aunt (and Wilhelmina’s cousin) Princess
Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. As it was
assumed that the former would renounce his claim to the
Dutch throne, and that the latter was too elderly and sickly
to become Queen, Marie Alexandrine’s eldest son Prince
Heinrich XXXII Reuss of Köstritz stood in line to succeed Wilhelmina, assuming she had no surviving children. Heinrich was a German prince with close associations with the Imperial family and the military; and there
were fears that were the Queen to remain childless, theDutch Crown “was bound to pass into the possession ofa German prince, whose birth, training, and aﬃliations
would naturally have led him to bring Holland [sic] within
the sphere of the German Empire, at the expense of her

Queen Wilhelmina in the 1890s

Princess Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria of theNetherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, was born on 31
August 1880 in The Hague, Netherlands. She was the
only child of King William III and his second wife, Emmaof Waldeck and Pyrmont. Her childhood was characterised by a close relationship with her parents, especiallywith her father, who was 63 years of age when she was
born.
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Wilhelmina of the Netherlands wearing her coronation robe in
1898; painting by Thérèse Schwartze
Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry at their wedding

independence, both national and economic”, according to
one contemporary publication.[4] The birth of Juliana, on
30 April 1909, was met with great relief after eight yearsof childless marriage.[5] Wilhelmina suﬀered two further
miscarriages on 23 January and 20 October 1912.[3]

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Reign

planning to accommodate the needs of both Boer andBritish wounded soldiers.[6] Nevertheless, in 1940, King
George VI sent the warship HMS Hereward, to rescue
Wilhelmina, her family and her Government and bringthem to safety to the United Kingdom, which oﬀered theNetherlands facilities including broadcasting time on the
BBC.

Wilhelmina was well aware what was expected of her by
the Dutch people and their elected representatives. At thesame time, she was a strong-willed and forceful personality who spoke and acted her mind. These qualities showedup early in her reign when, at the age of 20, Queen Wilhelmina ordered a Dutch warship, HNLMS Gelderland, Queen Wilhelmina also had a keen understanding of busito South Africa to evacuate Paul Kruger, the embattled ness matters and her investments made her the world’s
President of the Transvaal.
richest woman, as well as the world’s ﬁrst female billionWilhelmina had a stern dislike of the United Kingdom aire (in United States dollars).
partly as a result of the annexation of the republics
of Transvaal and Orange Free State in the Boer War.
The Boers were descendants of early Dutch colonists, towhom Wilhelmina and the people of the Netherlands felt
very closely linked. In conversation with her former governess Elisabeth Saxton Winter, she once teasingly referred to the Boer soldiers as “excellent shots”. She was
not amused to hear that a Dutch medical relief team was

Before the First World War started, the young Wilhelmina visited the powerful German Emperor Wilhelm
II. The Emperor thought he could impress the queen ofa relatively small country by telling her, “my guards areseven feet tall and yours are only shoulder-high to them.”
Wilhelmina smiled politely and replied, “Quite true, Your
Majesty, your guards are seven feet tall. But when we
open our dikes, the water is ten feet deep!"[7]3existing government and the monarchy. Instead of a violent revolution, he hoped to do this by winning control ofParliament in an election, supported by the working class.
However, the popularity of the young Queen helped restore conﬁdence in the government. Wilhelmina brought
about a mass show of support by riding with her daughter
through the crowds in an open carriage.
Furthermore the Russian revolution cost her almost 20%of her ﬁnancial assets, forcing her to entertain at a quite
diﬀerent level than before the war.
At the end of World War I, Kaiser Wilhelm ﬂed to
the Netherlands, where he was granted political asylum,
partly owing to his familial links with Queen Wilhelmina.
In response to Allied eﬀorts to get their hands on thedeposed Kaiser, Wilhelmina called the Allies’ ambassadors to her presence and lectured them on the rights
of asylum.[8]4 Between the wars

Queen Wilhelmina and her daughter Juliana, circa 1914

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World War I

The Netherlands remained neutral during World War I.
However, the Allies included the Netherlands in theirblockade of Germany, intercepting all Dutch ships andseverely restricting Dutch imports to ensure goods could
not be passed on to Germany.
Wilhelmina was a “soldier’s queen"; being a woman, she
could not be Supreme Commander, but she neverthelessused every opportunity she had to inspect her forces. On
many occasions she appeared without prior notice, wishing to see the reality, not a prepared show. She loved
her soldiers, and was very unhappy with most of her governments, which were always eager to cut the military
budget. Wilhelmina wanted a small but well trained andequipped army.

Queen Wilhelmina’s image on a stamp which was used between
1899 and 1926

During the 1920s and 1930s, the Netherlands began toemerge as an industrial power. Engineers reclaimed vast
In the war, she felt she was a “Queen-On-Guard”. She amounts of land that had been under water by building
was always wary of a German attack, especially in the Zuiderzee Works. In 1934, both Wilhelmina’s motherthe beginning. However, the chief violation of Dutch Queen Emma and her husband, Prince Hendrik, died.
sovereignty was the Allied blockade.
The interbellum, and most notably the economic crisis
Civil unrest gripped the Netherlands after the war, of the 1930s, was also the period in which Wilhelmina’s
spurred by the 1917 Bolshevik revolution in Russia. So- personal power reached its zenith; under the successive
cialist leader Pieter Jelles Troelstra wanted to abolish the governments of a staunch monarchist prime minister,45 WORLD WAR II

Hendrik Colijn (ARP), Wilhelmina was deeply involved
in most questions of state.
In 1939, Colijn’s ﬁfth and last government was swept
away by a vote of no conﬁdence two days after its formation. It is widely accepted that Wilhelmina herself wasbehind the formation of this last government, which was
designed to be an extra-parliamentary or 'royal' cabinet.
The Queen was deeply skeptical of the parliamentary system and tried to bypass it covertly more than once.
Most of the 1930s were also occupied by the need to ﬁnd
a suitable husband for Juliana. This was a diﬃcult task
since Wilhelmina was very religious, and insisted that her
daughter’s hand be given to a Protestant of royal birth.
Several prospects from the United Kingdom and Sweden
either declined or were turned down by Juliana. Finally,
Wilhelmina found a suitable match for her daughter in
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, a German aristocrat. The marriage initially drew some controversy due
to rumours that Bernhard was pro-Nazi. It was subsequently conﬁrmed that he had indeed been a member of
the Nazi Party and of the so-called Reiter-SS (SS Cavalry
Corps), as was proved by the Dutch national institute forwar documentation, NIOD.
In 1939, the government proposed a refugee camp near
the city of Apeldoorn for German Jews ﬂeeing the Nazi
regime. Wilhelmina intervened, as she felt the planned
location was “too close” to her summer residence. If indeed spies were to be among the fugitives, they would
be within walking distance of Het Loo Palace. The
camp was ﬁnally erected about 10 km from the villageof Westerbork.

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World War II

Queen Wilhelmina in 1942

she boarded HMS Hereward, a British destroyer which
was to take her across the North Sea. Others say she
boarded the destroyer with the intent of going to the
Dutch province of Zeeland, which had not yet been conquered at the time. However, along the journey, it became clear that due to advancing German forces, Zeeland
was not safe either, forcing the destroyer to sail for theUnited Kingdom. In any case, she arrived in the United
Kingdom on May 13, planning to return to the Netherlands as soon as possible.[10]Queen Wilhelmina reading a speech for Radio Oranje in 1940

On 10 May 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands.
There is an ongoing debate about the departure of the
Queen and the royal family. Some say that an evacuation to the United Kingdom of the royal family had beenplanned some time in advance, since at least the end of
1939.[9] Wilhelmina and her family ﬂed The Hague, and

The Queen speaking to the US Congress, 1942.

The Dutch armed forces in the Netherlands, apart fromthose in Zeeland, surrendered on 15 May. In Britain,
Queen Wilhelmina took charge of the Dutch government
in exile, setting up a chain of command and immediately

5christening of her grandchild Princess Margriet on 29
June 1943 in Ottawa and stayed awhile with her family
before returning to the United Kingdom.
During the war, the Queen was almost killed by a bombthat took the lives of several of her guards and severely
damaged her country home near South Mimms in England. In 1944, Queen Wilhelmina became only the second woman to be inducted into the Order of the Garter.
Churchill described her as the only real man among thegovernments-in-exile in London.
Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctica, is named for Queen Wilhelmina

communicating a message to her people.

In England, she developed ideas about a new political andsocial life for the Dutch after the liberation. She wanted astrong cabinet formed by people active in the resistance.
She dismissed De Geer during the war and installed aprime minister with the approval of other Dutch politicians. The Queen “hated” politicians, instead stating alove for the people. When the Netherlands was liberated
in 1945 she was disappointed to see the same politicalfactions taking power as before the war. Before the endof the war, in mid-March 1945, she travelled to the Allied occupied areas of the south of the Netherlands, visiting the region of Walcheren and the city of Eindhoven
where she received a rapturous welcome from the local
population.[11]Relations between the Dutch government and the Queen
were tense, with mutual dislike growing as the war progressed. Wilhelmina went on to be the most prominentﬁgure, owing to her experience and knowledge. She wasalso very popular and respected among the leaders of theworld. The government did not have a parliament to backthem and had few employees to assist them. The Dutch
prime minister, Dirk Jan de Geer, believed the Allies
would not win and intended to open negotiations withGermany for a separate peace. Therefore Wilhelmina
sought to remove De Geer from power. With the aid of
Following the end of World War II, Queen Wilhelmina
a minister, Pieter Gerbrandy, she succeeded.
made the decision not to return to her palace but to move
During the war her photograph was a sign of resistance into a mansion in The Hague, where she lived for eightagainst the Germans. Like Winston Churchill, Queen months. She travelled through the countryside to motiWilhelmina broadcast messages to the Dutch people over vate people, sometimes using a bicycle instead of a car.
Radio Oranje.
However, in 1947, while the country was still recovering
The Queen called Adolf Hitler “the arch-enemy of from World War II, the revolt in the oil-rich Dutch East
mankind”. Her late-night broadcasts were eagerly Indies saw sharp criticism of the Queen by the Dutch ecoawaited by her people, who had to hide in order to lis- nomic elite.
ten to them illegally. An anecdote published in her New Around the same time, Wilhelmina’s health started failYork Times obituary illustrates how she was valued by her ing her, forcing her to cede her monarchial duties to Jusubjects during this period:
liana temporarily towards the end of 1947 (14 Octoberthrough 1 December). She considered abdication, but Juliana pressed her to stay on for the stability of the nation,
Although celebration of the Queen’s birthurging her to stay on the throne until 1950 so she could
day was forbidden by the Germans, it wascelebrate her diamond jubilee. Wilhelmina had every incommemorated nevertheless. When churchtention of doing so, but exhaustion forced her to relingoers in the small ﬁshing town of Huizen
quish monarchial duties to Juliana again on 12 May 1948.
rose and sang one verse of the Dutch naThe timing was unfortunate, as it left Juliana to deal withtional anthem, Wilhelmus van Nassauwe, on
the early elections caused by the ceding of the Indonesian
the Queen’s birthday, the town paid a ﬁne of[1]colonies.
60,000 guilders.
Dismayed by the return to pre-war politics and the pendQueen Wilhelmina visited the United States from 24 June ing loss of Indonesia, Wilhelmina abdicated on 4 Septemto 11 August 1942 as guest of the U.S. government. She ber 1948.
vacationed in Lee, Massachusetts, and visited New York
City, Boston, and Albany, New York. In the latter city
she attended the 300th anniversary celebration of the 6 Later years
First Church in Albany, the city’s oldest, established by
Dutch settlers in the 17th century. She addressed the U.S. As of 1948, Wilhelmina was the only survivor of theCongress on 5 August 1942, and was the ﬁrst queen to do 16 European kings and one queen who were sitting on
so.
their thrones at the time of her coronation in 1898. The
Queen Wilhelmina went to Canada in 1943 to attend the Dutch Royal Family was also one of seven European royal

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TITLES, STYLES, AND HONOURS

According to German Salic law, the House of OrangeNassau-Dietz became extinct upon her death (similar to
the end of the House of Hanover in the United Kingdom
with Queen Victoria), but this rule is not recognised byroyal Dutch succession laws.

7 Titles, styles, and honours

Statue of Queen Wilhelmina in Noordwijk

Collecting signatures for the queen, 1948

houses remaining in existence.[12]On 4 September 1948, after a reign of 57 years and 286
days, Wilhelmina abdicated in favour of her daughter
Juliana, because of advancing age and illness which had
already caused two regencies, and the strain of the war
years. She was thenceforward styled “Her Royal Highness Princess Wilhelmina of the Netherlands”. After her
reign, the inﬂuence of the Dutch monarchy began to decline but the country’s love for its royal family continued. No longer queen, Wilhelmina retreated to Het Loo
Palace, making few public appearances until the country
was devastated by the North Sea ﬂood of 1953. Onceagain she travelled around the country to encourage andmotivate the Dutch people.

Royal Monogram• 31 August 1880 – 1884: Her Royal Highness
Princess Pauline• 1884 – 23 November 1890: Her Royal Highness
Princess Wilhelmina• 23 November 1890 – 4 September 1948: Her
Majesty The Queen• 4 September 1948 – 28 November 1962: Her
Royal Highness Princess Wilhelmina

During her last years she wrote her autobiography entiWilhelmina’s regnal title from her accession to her martled Eenzaam, maar niet alleen (Lonely but Not Alone),riage was: “Wilhelmina, by the Grace of God, Queenin which she gave account of the events in her life, andof the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, etc,
revealed her strong religious feelings and motivations.
etc, etc.” She adopted her husband’s ducal title upon
Wilhelmina died in Het Loo Palace at the age of 82 on marriage as customary, becoming also a Duchess of
28 November 1962, and was buried in the Dutch Royal Mecklenburg.[14][15]
Family crypt in the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft, on 8 December. The funeral was, at her request and contrary to protocol, completely in white to give expression to her belief 7.1 Honours
that earthly death was the beginning of eternal life.[13]

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7.1.1
•

National honours
Netherlands:
Former Sovereign Knight
Grand Cross of the Military William Order[16][17][18][19][20][21][22]•Netherlands: Former Sovereign Knight Grand
Cross with Collar of the Order of the Netherlands
Lion[21][22][23][24][25][26][27]•Netherlands: Former Sovereign Knight Grand
Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau[28][29][30]•Netherlands: Former Co-Sovereign Knight
Grand Cross of the Order of the Gold Lion of theHouse of Nassau

•

7.1.2
•

Netherlands: Former Sovereign Knight Grand
Cross of the Order of the House of Orange
Foreign honours
Austrian-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Family: Knight Grand Cordon of the Military Order ofMaria Theresa[21][22]•Peru: Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun ofPeru[21][33]•

Poland: Recipient of the Order of the White
Eagle[39]•Romanian Royal Family: Knight Grand Cross
with Collar of the Order of Carol I[21][22]•Spanish Royal Family: Knight Grand Cross
with Collar of the Order of Charles III[21]•Spanish Royal Family: Knight Grand Cross
with Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic[40]•Spanish Royal Family: 897th Dame Grand
Cross of the Order of Queen Maria Luisa[41]•Sweden: Member Grand Cross of the Order of
the Seraphim[21][33]•

United Kingdom: Royal Lady of the Order of
the Garter[21][42][43][44][45]•

United Kingdom: Dame of the Royal Order ofVictoria and Albert, 1st Class[46][47]•Belgium: Knight Grand Cordon of the Orderof Leopold[31][32]•

United States:
Legion of Merit[48]•Belgium: Recipient of the Croix de Guerre
Medal

•

United States: Recipient of the World War II
Victory Medal•

Brazil: Grand Cross of the Order of the Southern Cross[21][22]Chief Commander of the

8 Wilhelmina Mints•

Czech Republic: Grand Cross with Collar of
the Order of the White Lion[21][33]In 1892 the company Fortuin celebrated its 50th anniversary by producing mints with the image of the 12-year•
Denmark: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of old Princess Wilhelmina, which have continued in prothe Elephant[34][35][36]duction since then.[49] Among Dutch sweets, these mints
have become the “most Dutch of all”.[50]•Ethiopia: Knight Grand Cordon of the Orderof Solomon[21][22]9 Ancestry•

Finland: Collar with Star of the Order of theWhite Rose of Finland[21][22]•France: Knight Grand Cross of the Legion of See also: Dutch monarchs family tree
Honour[37]•Guatemala: Grand Cross of the Order of the
Quetzal[21][33]•Luxembourg: Knight Grand Cross of the Orderof the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau•

Luxembourg: Knight Grand Cross of the Orderof the Oak Crown•

10 See also
• Continental, Arizona

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