When William III became King, why didn't Holland join the United Kingdom as Scotland did 85 years earlier?

Answer 1

William III was not King of Holland, or more accurately the Netherlands. The Netherlands fought a bitter War of Independence against the Spanish in the seventeenth century. The Northern part of the Spanish Netherlands only won when they found a strong leader in William the Silent - what we now know as Belgium remaimed Spanish. The Netherlands were a federation of republican states (Provinces); but the Orange family became effectively hereditary Stadtholders and it was in this capacity that William III ruled the Netherlands to a limited extent. The Orange family took the title of King later.

Given the Netherlands' struggle to become independent of Spain, the last thing their Provinces wished was to become part of a larger Kingdom. In addition, the Netherlands (but in this respect you are right to say Holland) and England were fierce commerical rivals as the two main maritime powers in seventeenth century Europe. The two countries were at war several times in the seventeenth century, not least in 1667 when the Dutch burnt Chatham dockyard before negotiating peace.

Scotland did not join England in 1603: from the accession of James VI to England as James I until the Act of Union in 1707 the two countries were seprate but had the same ruler. In this respect, there was some, if not great, similarity in the relationship between England and the Netherlands and between England and Scotland under William III.

William's role as military leader of the Netherlands of course meant that Queen Anne, as a woman, did not inherit it, so the relationship between England and the Netherlands was not permanent. By contrast, England and Scotland had similar laws of succession.

Answer 2

The first Act of Union was 1707, when the parliaments of Scotland and England united in the title 'The United Kingdom'. William III became king in 1688 and he was dead before Union. All that had happened in 1606 when James I/VI became king of England was that the same person held the crown of the two countries - they were, however, still separate and independent nations. In 1688 the Stadtholder of the Netherlands also became king of England and Scotland. He had no descendants to take over either of the crowns on his death (they passing to his sister-in-law, Anne) so there was no continued succession linking the Netherlands and England/Scotland, as there had been with James I/VI, and Charles I and II linking Scotland/England

Answer 3

He lived during the Dutch 'Golden Age', where the Netherlands were a pretty strong power on their own. The cities in the Netherlands as wel as the VOC (east indian company) had a lot of power, so the power of the 'king' was very limited. The people fought against the water in their more or less democratically formed 'waterschappen' and were also quite independent.
The distance might also add to the matter, even though sea generally made distances a lot smaller than they were on land.

Answer 4

The United Kingdom did not come into existence until The Act of Union in 1800. William III ruled from 1689, so it would have been impossible for any country to have joined the United Kingdom during his reign...it didn't exist.

The Act of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland, which had been gradually brought under English control between 1541 and 1691, to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. [6] Independence for the now Republic of Ireland in 1922 followed the partition of the island of Ireland two years previously, with six of the nine counties of the province of Ulster remaining within the UK, which then changed to the current name in 1927. [7]

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Oliver Cromwell actually encouraged Freesia to join England during his time as protector. The problem with William was that he was a Prince of only a small part of the Netherlands, which incidentally so us as an imperial rival.

Answer 7

They didn't want us to get hold of their cheeses