We have definitely always said the Hague and never just Hague But we never said The Hague with a capital The in mid sentence That is some bizarre modern Wikipedia hypercorrection That s like people retroactively putting CamelCase into words where it never existed in the past My interest is more in how we used to alphabetize the name That I do not recall specifically but I suspect it would have been listed under H not T since the the is only a the Computer sort order didn t use to matter there was no such thing People named M Mac and Mc were put together in a group by hand by some typesetter