AN OFFICER'S GILT GORGET OF THE DUTCH STADHOUDER'S FOOT GUARDS REGIMENT OF THE TIME OF WILLIAM V, PRINCE OF ORANGE

LATE 18TH CENTURY

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AN OFFICER'S GILT GORGET OF THE DUTCH STADHOUDER'S FOOT GUARDS REGIMENT OF THE TIME OF WILLIAM V, PRINCE OF ORANGE
Late 18th Century
Of richly gilt metal (with rimmed edge) bearing in relief at the center an extremely ornate crowned rococo shield set in an elaborate trophy of arms with the (British) Garter with its motto HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE surrounding the finely engraved armorial details of the shield (the Arms of the Prince of Orange)

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William V, Prince of Orange and Nassau-Dietz, was the son of Anne, Princess Royal of Great Britain (daughter of King George II) and became Stadhouder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands as an infant (under regency until 1766). He became a Knight of the Garter. He was driven out of Holland in 1795 by the French. Although his son was to regain power in 1813, William V died in 1806, the year in which Napoleon made his own brother, Louis, King of Holland

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