Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia (1774–1837)

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Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia (1774–1837)

Queen of the Netherlands. Name variations: Wilhelmina of Prussia; Wilhelmina Hohenzollern. Born on November 18, 1774, in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany; died on October 12, 1837, in The Hague, Netherlands; daughter of Frederick William II, king of Prussia (r. 1786–1797), and Frederica of Hesse (1751–1805); married William I (1772–1843), king of the Netherlands (r. 1813–1840, abdicated in 1840), on October 1, 1791; children: William II (1792–1849), king of the Netherlands (r. 1840–1849, who married Anna Pavlovna ); Frederick Orange-Nassau (1797–1881); Charlotte (1800–1806); Marianne of the Netherlands (1810–1883). Following the death of Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia, William I married Henrietta Adrienne , on February 17, 1841, in Berlin, Germany.

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