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NETHERLANDS - KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS - WILHELMINA

(1890-1948)

Born on August 31, 1880, Wilhelmina succeeded her father Guillaume III on November 23, 1890 but remained under the regency of her mother Emma de Waldeck-Pyrmont until 1898. In 1901 she married Henri de Mecklenburg-Schwerin. She abdicated on September 4, 1948, the year of the 50th anniversary of her effective reign, in favor of her only daughter Juliana, born in 1909. She died on November 28, 1962.