Everything about Emma Of Waldeck And Pyrmont totally explained
Princess Adelheid Emma Wilhelmina Theresia of Waldeck and Pyrmont (
August 2,
1858 -
March 20,
1934) was
Queen consort of
William III, King of the
Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg. An immensely popular member of the Dutch royal family, she also was
Queen regent (
1890 -
1898),
Queen Mother (
1890 -
1934) as well as a passionate
woodworker, owning a workshop in
Utrecht,
The Netherlands.
Family
She was born in
Arolsen, capital of the small German principality of
Waldeck and Pyrmont, on
2 August 1858, a daughter of
Georg Viktor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and his wife, Princess
Helena Wilhelmina Henrietta of
Nassau.
Her brother,
Friedrich, was the last reigning Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Her sister,
Helena Frederica, would become the wife of
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, a son of
Queen Victoria and
Prince Albert.
Her maternal grandparents were
Wilhelm, Duke of Nassau and his second wife Pauline of
Württemberg. Pauline was a daughter of
Prince Paul of Württemberg and his wife Charlotte of
Saxe-Hildburghausen.
Paul was a son of
Frederick I of Württemberg and his wife
Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Augusta was the eldest daughter of
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg and
Princess Augusta Charlotte of Wales.
Marriage
She married the elderly king, William III, on
17 January,
1879, two years after his first wife,
Princess Sophie of Württemberg, had died. The aging, licentious king, once described as "the greatest debauchee of the age", had previously been rejected by Emma's sister Pauline and by
Princess Thyra of Denmark.
With William, Emma had her only child, the future
Queen Wilhelmina, on
31 August,
1880. The king also had three sons from his first marriage,
William,
Maurice, and
Alexander, all of whom died before him.
When William died on
23 November,
1890, Emma became regent for her underaged daughter, Wilhelmina, the late king's only surviving child. She would remain Queen regent until Wilhelmina's eighteenth birthday on
31 August,
1898. The
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which couldn't be inherited by a woman at that time, passed to their distant cousin
Adolf, Duke of Nassau (who was also Queen Emma's maternal uncle).
She died in 1934, of complications from
bronchitis at the age of 75, and was buried in
Delft.
Ancestry
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