Failed to remove flower. In 1834, he was made honorary commander of the Grenadiers Regiment of Kiev nr. In 1811, he was made an aide-de-camp to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and thus participated in many campaigns of the Peninsular War (1808–1814).

William II had a string of relationships with both men and women. Are you sure that you want to report this flower to administrators as offensive or abusive? He also fought at the Battle of Waterloo (on June 18, 1815) and was injured. When William was two, he and his family fled to England after allied British-Hanoverian troops left the Republic and entering French troops joined the anti-orangist Patriots. GREAT NEWS! Please improve this article by adding a reference. Belgium was eventually recognized by the Netherlands. [3] On 8 September 1812 he was made an Aide-de-Camp to the Prince Regent[4] and on 14 December 1813 promoted to Major-General. In 1815, he took service in the army when Napoleon I of France escaped from Elba. He established the first parliamentary cabinet of his country a few months before died. However, the subsequent Second Treaty of London re-established Luxembourg as a fully independent country. Exiled to England with his family in 1795, William served in the British Army (1811–12) as the duke of Wellington’s aide-de-camp in the Peninsular War (1808–14); he also commanded the Netherlands troops in the Battle of Waterloo (1815). He was the 869th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Spain. William spent his youth in Berlin at the Prussian court. He is a recurring character in the historical novels of Georgette Heyer, most notably in An Infamous Army.

After his father abdicated on October 7, 1840, William II ascended to the throne. [7][8], The king was a man of immense stature and with a boisterous voice. Are you sure that you want to delete this memorial? Willem Alexander later ascended to the throne as King William III. The king surrounded himself with male servants whom he could not dismiss because of his 'abominable motive' for hiring them in the first place.[1]. Make sure that the file is a photo. His father, however, rejected his suggestions. European intervention established Leopold of Saxe-Gotha on the new throne of Belgium. In 1819, William II was blackmailed over his supposed bisexuality. The king who thought of himself as a specialist on all matters military frequently tried to take command of manoeuvres, creating chaos wherever he went. [citation needed], During his reign, the king became more and more unpopular with his bourgeois-liberal subjects, his whims provoking their resistance and mockery, but remained quite popular with the common man. William Alexander Frederick Constantine Nicolas Michael (1818–1848). Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. A, portant institution, pour le Grand-Duché du Luxembourg d'un Ordre de la Couronne de Chêne.

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