He was born in Schwerin. He was created Prince Hendrik of the Netherlands on February 6, 1901 and married Queen Wilhelmina on February 7, 1901 at the Hague.
A playboy and a drunkard who is reported to have had several illegitimate children, the marriage was an unhappy one that did little more than meet its obligation by producing an heir. They had one child, Princess Juliana, in whose favor her mother abdicated on September 4, 1948.
In the year 1627 Prince Frederik Hendrik, Prince of Orange-Naussau and stadtholder of The Netherlands, decided to besiege the city of Grolle (now Groenlo) in the eastern part of The Netherlands.
Prince Frederik Hendrik himself resided in the biggest encampment on the Lievelder Es (in the picture above you see it right from the centre of the bottom).
Frederik Hendrik ordered his soldiers back to their trenches, encampments and schansen to demolish them: this way he was sure they were of no use to the Spanards.
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