Prince Of Orange Willem V

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Dutch prince and the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic. He went into exile to London in 1795. He was the reigning Prince of Nassau-Orange until his death on 9 April 1806. In that capacity he was succeeded by his son Willem. He was only three years old when his father Willem IV died in 1751, and a long regency began. His regents were: Dowager Princess Anne, his mother, from 1751 to her death in 1759; Dowager Princess Marie Luise, his grandmother, from 1759 to her death in 1765; Duke Ludwig Ernst of Brunswick-Lüneburg, from 1759 to 1766, and kept on as a privy counsellor until October 1784; and Princess Carolina, his sister (who at the time was an adult aged 22, while he was still a minor at 17), from 1765 to William's majority in 1766. Willem V assumed the position of stadtholder (chief executive) and Captain-General of the Dutch States Army in 1766. On 4 October 1767 in Berlin, Prince Willem married Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia, the daughter of August Wilhelm of Prussia, niece of Frederick the Great and a cousin of King George III of the UK. He became an art collector and in 1774 his Galerij Prins Willem V was opened to the public. Willem V and Wilhelmina of Prussia were parents to five children. Willem V died in exile on 9 April 1806, aged 58, in Brunswick. Link to Wikipedia biography