A Love Story: King William and Queen Mary

William's grandparents were Dutch, German, English, and French. He certainly spoke English as well as speaking Dutch. His wife was English and ...

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I expect he was pretty fluent in English. Although Dutch was his native language, both his mother and his wife were English and he spoke English with them.

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William of Orange could always understand and converse in English. However he was never a polished speaker. Even Lord Macaulay, who idolised ...

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William III and II also known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, ...

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William of Orange probably knew English better than he's given credit for, but he was a generally nervous person and insecure about his ...

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He was multilingual speaking not only English and Dutch but also French, Latin, German and Spanish. He co-ruled with his wife Mary who was the ...

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William of Orange ... Although his mother was English (the sister of King Charles II and King James II), he spoke the language haltingly and ...

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William is called William of Orange because he was from Orange in the Dutch Republic. He married his cousin Mary, which later gave him a claim to the English ...

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William of Orange (Dutch: Willem van Oranje), was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' War

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William's main concern was to contain French ambition, however, and not to gain a crown, and from 1687 on, he became increasingly anxious to secure English ...

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