Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel
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Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel was a Dutch regent, Princess of Orange by marriage to John William Friso, Prince of Orange, and regent of the Netherlands during the minority of her son and her grandson.
Portrait by Lancelot Volders, 1710
Marie Louise (left) with her two children, c. 1725
Anonymous Netherlands, Portrait of Maria Louisa, Princess of Orange, mid 1700s, engraving
Maria Amalia of Courland
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Princess Maria Amalia of Courland was a Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel by her marriage to Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. She was a daughter of Jacob Kettler, Duke of Courland and Semigallia and Ma
Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel
…Orange, and regent of the Netherlands during the minority of her son and her grandson. She was a daughter of Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and Maria Amalia of Courland. From the end of World War II in 1945 until 2022, Marie Louise and her husband were the most recent common ancestors of all reigning hereditary monarchs…
Portrait by Johan N Cramer, 1729
Frederick I of Sweden, Maria Amalia's eldest surviving son