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| | Dutch monarchy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The House of Orange-Nassau were given the modern day Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg to rule, which came to be known as the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. |
 | | Prior to the Napoleonic wars, the Netherlands had stadtholders from the same family, although the state was, formally, a republic. |
 | | The first king of the constitutional monarchy of the Netherlands, William I, was a descendant of William the Rich through his eldest son William of Orange (also known as William the Silent) who, from 1568 on, had led the Dutch in their eighty-year struggle for independence from Spain. |
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