Skip to content

REMCO

Monarchies
The Netherlands

  • About us
  • Monarchies
  • Publications
  • Español
  • English
  • @REMCOnet
Incumbent Willem Alexander I
Coronation 30 April, 2013
House Orange-Nassau
Residence Noordeinde Palace (official)
Villa Eikenhorst (private)

The title to the Throne shall be hereditary and shall vest in the legitimate descendants of King William I, Prince of Orange-Nassau

The Constitution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, article 24 Read
Official website @koninklijkhuis

Publications

A brief introduction to the government formation process in the Netherlands

Herman Tjeenk Willink 4 mayo, 2016

Two institutions play an important part in the process of forming a government: the newly elected House of Representatives and the King. A change in the procedure in 2012 shifted the initiative, formally at least, from the King to the House of Representatives.

Bibliography

Mobocracy and Monarchy: A Ritualistic Reconciliation with the Anachronism of the Dutch Monarchy

Peter Jan Margry2014Journal of European Ethnology

“Since the Second World War the Dutch royal family started actively positioning themselves as “open”, “modern” and “ordinary”, as being like their subjects”.

The Public Budget Cost of Some Monarchies and Republics in Western Europe

Herman Matthijs2013Scottish Journal of Arts, Social Sciences and Scientific Studies v.13

“The public budget systems of the eight West European monarchies and the two republics considered use a variety of systems for the civil lists and allocations granted to their heads of state. For this reason it is very difficult to compare the systems with one another”

Transforming the Dutch Republic into the Kingdom of Holland: the Netherlands between Republicanism and Monarchy (1795–1815)

Martijn van der Burg2010European Review of History

“Later the Restoration monarchs, tried to reconcile popular sovereignty and monarchic authority by propagating the constitutional monarchy as the ideal juste milieu (middle way) between extremes”

Read all results

Biographies

Beatrix: dwars door alle weerstanden heen

Jutta Chorus2013Atlas Contact

“Met bijna benauwende plichtsbetrachting, een bedachtzame echtgenoot en God als ‘schild ende betrouwen’ stuurde Beatrix het koningschap naar kalme wateren”

Willem-Alexander: van prins tot koning

Jan Hoedeman y Remco MeijerAtlas Contact

“After four queens, the Netherlands’ new head of state is now a king. But who is he? How long did he struggle with his fate? Who are the people behind the scenes, the new ‘kingmakers’? How have they helped create the man who will have to live up to his mother’s high standards?”

2021 © Network for the Study of Contemporary Monarchies · Contact us

Design by ruitiña.