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H.M.
William III
King of Great Britain

1650-1702

  
 

    Vita
    Titles and Awards
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    Military Service
    Other Military Connections

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Index of Reigns & Peerages
       
  full name:   William Henry
  birth: 1650.11.14 at The Hague, Netherlands
  father:   William II, Prince of Orange
  mother:   Mary Stuart (daughter of Charles I)
  marriage: 1677.11.04 Mary II, Queen of England and Scotland
at St. James's Palace, London, England
  children: 1678-1680 three unnamed children died in childbirth
  accession: 1689.02.13 proclaimed by Parliament two months after the abdication of James II
  coronation: 1689.04.11 at Westminster Abbey, London (jointly with consort Mary II)
  death: 1702.03.08 at Kensington Palace, London
(buried: Westminster Abbey, London)
       
       
  Titles, Orders and Awards
     
  Titles:
  1672 Stadtholder of Holland
    Prince of Orange
  1689.02.13 King and Queen of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland (jointly with consort Mary II)
     
  British Empire/Commonwealth Orders and Awards:
   
     
  Foreign Orders and Awards:
   
     
     
   Honorary Military Appointments
   
1690 Captain-General and Colonel, Honourable Artillery Company
     
     
   Military Service
 
   
   
   Other Military Connections
1692 gave his title to The King's Regiment of Carabineers
   
   
 
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