1734 KING GEORGE II pamphlet w PROCLAMATION - WILLIAM IV Marries Princess Anne

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1734 KING GEORGE II Proclamation regarding the naturalizing of his son-in-law,
WILLIAM IV
, Prince of Orange to become a British citizen
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inv # 8S-229
SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL 4-page pamphlet with an Act of Parliament signed in type by British KING GEORGE III. This is the printing of an act for "...Exhibiting a bill in this present Parliament, for naturalizing his Highness the Prince of Orange..."
Very displayable Act signed in type by King George II 40 years before the Revolutionary War
In 1720 William was named the 549th Knight of the Order of the Garter. On 25 March 1734 he married at St James's Palace Anne, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach. William and Anne had five children.
In 1739 William inherited the estates formerly owned by the Nassau-Dillenburg branch of his family, and in 1743 he inherited those formerly owned by the Nassau-Siegen branch of his family.
In April 1747 the French army entered Flanders, threatening the Netherlands, which was weakened by internal division. The Dutch decided that their country needed a single strong executive, and turned to the House of Orange. William and his family moved from Leeuwarden to The Hague. On 4 May 1747, the States General of the Netherlands named William General Stadtholder of all seven of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and made the position hereditary for the first time. William first met Duke Louis Ernest of Brunswick-L
üneburg in 1747, and two years later appointed him field marshal of the Dutch States Army, which later led to Louis Ernest serving as one of the regents for William's heir.
William IV was considered an attractive, educated, and accomplished prince in his prime. Although he had little experience in state affairs, William was at first popular with the people. He stopped the practice of indirect taxation by which independent contractors managed to make large sums for themselves. Nevertheless, he was also a Director-General of the Dutch East India Company, and his alliance with the business class deepened while the disparity between rich and poor grew.
William served as General Stadtholder of all the Netherlands until his death in 1751 at The Hague.
The county of Orange, Virginia, and the city of Orangeburg, South Carolina, are named after him.
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