According to The Christian Science Monitor:
…anti-monarchists numbers are small. The workshop in Amsterdam was attended by nine republicans – they were almost outnumbered by journalists.
The Dutch monarchy…is something of an oddity in Europe. While many European nations had a monarchy first and then a republic, the Netherlands took a different, anachronistic route.
At the end of the 16th century…seven northern provinces decided that they needed no ruler above them. They, in rather de facto fashion, formed a decentralized federation: the Republic of the Seven United Provinces.
In the following centuries, the Republic was alternately ruled by oligarchies and the descendants of nobleman Willem van Oranje…
To read the entire article in The Christian Science Monitor, please click here.
Portrait of Willem I of Nassau, prince of Orange and Stadholder (1533-1584)
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Also of interest:
Traditional, aristocratic and authentic elites
Forms of Government: Abstract Principles and Their Influence in the Formation of a Political Mentality
Hereditary Transmission of Qualities and Merit as Family Patrimony
Absenteeism and omission: sin of the elites
From the individual to the family, from the family to the gens, and finally to the tribe—the process toward the foundation of the civitas—the State is born
The aristocracy synthesizes the perfections of the community
The Different Roads of the Authentic and Inauthentic Elites
The formation of nations and regions
The Familial Character of Feudal Government—The King: The Father of His People
Hereditary Transmission of Qualities and Merit as Family Patrimony
