*Part of a press trip* While the Netherlands seems to have forgotten the 250th anniversary of the birth of King William I of the Netherlands, the city of Fulda in Germany has embraced it as an opportunity to showcase its links to the Dutch King. William ruled the Kingdom of the Netherlands between 1815 and [read more]
Princess Pauline of Orange-Nassau was born on 1 March 1800 as the third child and eldest daughter of Wilhelmina of Prussia and the future King William I of the Netherlands, known as the Prince of Orange at the time. She was born in Berlin, where the family was living in exile after the French First [read more]
Read part one here. In November 1800, Louise turned 30 years old. She wrote to her mother, “I am very amazed that I am already 30 years old.[…] It’s like it was only yesterday that you were my age and I remember thinking how very old you were.” Her life in Brunswick remained pretty much [read more]
Princess Louise is the sweetest person that lives. Louise of Orange-Nassau was born on 28 November 1770 as the daughter of William V, Prince of Orange and Wilhelmina of Prussia. She was thus the niece of Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau, who was also her godmother. Louise would be their eldest surviving child as her mother [read more]
Johann Friedrich August Tischbein was a German painter from the Tischbein family. His father was Johann Valentin Tischbein. He was appointed court painter to Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont and also made several trips to The Netherlands. In 1795, he was hired by Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau but left a year [read more]
Wilhelmina of Prussia was born on 18 November 1774 as the daughter of King Frederick William II of Prussia and Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt. Not much is known about her early life. She received an education in several languages, needlepoint and painting. She married her first cousin William, then Prince of Orange, on 1 October [read more]
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