Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont

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name = Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont
title = Queen consort of the Netherlands

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caption = Emma as Queen Mother
full name = Adelheid Emma Wilhelmina Theresia
date of birth = birth date|1858|8|2|df=yes
place of birth = Castle Arolsen, Arolsen, Waldeck and Pyrmont, German Empire
date of death = death date and age|1934|3|20|1858|8|2|df=yes
place of death = Palace Lange Voorhout, The Hague, Netherlands
place of burial = Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, Netherlands
spouse = William III
reign = 1879-1890
issue = Wilhelmina
father = George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
mother = Princess Helena of Nassau

Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont (2 August 1858 - 20 March 1934) was Queen consort of William III, King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg. An immensely popular member of the Dutch royal family, she also was Queen regent (1890 - 1898), Queen Mother (1890 - 1934) as well as a passionate woodworker, owning a workshop in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Family

Emma was born as "Adelheid Emma Wilhelmina Theresia, Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont" on 2 August 1858 in Castle Arolsen in Arolsen, the capital of the small German principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont. She was the fourth daughter of Georg Viktor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont and Helena, Princess of Nassau.

Her brother, Friedrich, was the last reigning Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Her sister, Helena Frederica, would become the wife of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, a son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

Her maternal grandparents were Wilhelm, Duke of Nassau and his second wife Princess Pauline of Württemberg. Pauline was a daughter of Prince Paul of Württemberg and his wife Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

Paul was a son of Frederick I of Württemberg and his wife Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Augusta was the eldest daughter of Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg and Princess Augusta Charlotte of Wales, elder sister of George III of the United Kingdom.

Marriage

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With William, Emma had her only child, the future Queen Wilhelmina, on 31 August 1880. The king also had three sons from his first marriage, William, Maurice, and Alexander, all of whom died before him.

When William died on 23 November 1890, Emma became regent for her underaged daughter, Wilhelmina, the late king's only surviving child. She would remain Queen regent until Wilhelmina's eighteenth birthday on 31 August 1898. The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which could not be inherited by a woman at that time, passed to their distant cousin Adolf, Duke of Nassau (who was also Queen Emma's maternal uncle).

She died in 1934, of complications from bronchitis at the age of 75, and was buried in Delft.

Titles

*Her Serene Highness The Princess Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1858-1879)
*Her Majesty The Queen of the Netherlands (1879-1890)
*Her Majesty Emma Queen Regent of the Netherlands (1890-1898)
*Her Majesty Emma Queen Mother of the Netherlands (1898-1934)

Ancestry

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1= Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont
2= Georg Viktor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
3= Helena Wilhelmina Henrietta of Nassau
4= Georg Friedrich Heinrich, Prince Waldeck and Pyrmont
5= Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym
6= Wilhelm, Duke of Nassau
7= Princess Pauline of Württemberg
8= Georg, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
9= Princess Auguste of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
10=Viktor II Karl Friedrich, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym
11=Princess Amalie of Nassau-Weilburg
12=Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg
13=Princess Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg
14=Prince Paul of Württemberg
15=Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen

External links

*nl icon [http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/content.jsp?objectid=24969 Koningin Emma (1858-1934)] at the Dutch Royal House website

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years=1879-1890