We are saying the same thing in different ways.
Genealogically speaking, the house of Orange is extinct since the death of Q.Wilhelmina.
As you well put it, "the dynastic name of the children of Wilhelmina and Hendrik was decided by law"
So, they created a fiction. If Juliana could be named of Orange on her own right, there was no need for Parliament to pass such bill, right ?
A fiction that endured for two more generations with Beatrix "von Lippe" and W-A "von Amsberg" and that will surely continue when Catarina Amalia "von Amsberg" will marry Mr. van Smith and their children will be allowed to carry the Orange surname instead of being Pr.Pss N van Smith.
You say the children of the late Pr.Friso have the van Amsberg surname which is the logical thing.
In An Online Gotha, there is a slight difference: after their christian names come the titles Css van Oranje-Nassau, Jonkvrouw van Amsberg, so I am not sure about the names they have in their identity cards/passports.
What when Luana marries another Mr. van Smith ? Will the fictio go on with a Css van Oranje-Nassau, Jonkvrouw van Amsberg, van Smith ?
On the Wikipedia page on Maurits van Vollenhoven (ok it's Wikip.) one can read "By Royal Decree of 26 May 1998, the children of van Vollenhoven bear the surname "van Lippe-Biesterfeld van Vollenhoven"."
For me, that's a neat recognition that Maurit's mother is a "van Lippe-Bisterfeld", and not a "van Oranje", or else she would have passed the latter.
But, as I said, this is all fiction.
There are no more genealogical Oranges, just people related to the last Orange person who are allowed to use such name.
BTW in the NL is it usual for someone to carry both parents surnames ?
Is there a prticular order - Mother-Father (as in Maurits) or Father-Mother or can one freely choose the order ?
As a motorsport fan, I found it odd that Bernhard van Vollenhoven had choosen to race (with modest results) under the name Bernhard van Orange but I looked it up and apparently he can.
The royal surname probably allows him to find sponsors more easily
Well you are wrong on that matter. There was the Nassau-family pact that made it possible for women to transmit the name and titles when both branches (Orange-Nassau and Nassau-Weilburg) were facing male line extinction the branches accepted the heiresses as legitimate heirs.
In the Netherlands the dynastic name of the children of Wilhelmina and Hendrik was decided by law. A special law made that Juliana had the family-name of Orange-Nassau and the same law applied for her four daughters.
These days the family-name is stipulated in the special bill of consent that needs to pass the Estates-General for the dynast to remain in line of succession after marriage.
So Wilhelmina was the last of Orange-Nassau-Dietz but her daughter, granddaughters and some of their lines are of Orange-Nassau.
The family name of the children of the late prince Friso is Van Oranje-Nassau van Amsberg.
The legal surname of the children of prince Maurits is Van Lippe-Biesterfeld van Vollenhoven and the name of the children of his younger brothers is Van Vollenhoven. The four sons of Princes Margriet themselves however are Of Orange-Nassau's.
Time and time again the Orange succession comes to the discussion.
For me, the house of Orange is extinct since the death of Q.Wilhelmina.
Genealogically speaking, Q.Juliana was a Mecklenburg, Q.Beatrix was a Lippe and K. Willem-Alexander is a von Amsberg, full stop.
By an artificial strategy, Willem III managed to maintain the name alive.
Opposite to the Habsburgs, who passed their heritage to the Lorraine via a woman, MT, the inclusion of the Orange title in the present dutch RF did not come via a woman, but via male succession, the last prince of Orange in his line René de Nassau-Chalon left it to his cousin William the Silent.
French titles use to abide to the salic law so I wonder if it was legitimate for Willem III to "unsalicize" the Orange succession, the same way he could NOT "unsalicize" the Nassau one.
Which would be the next line with a better claim to the Orange title if the salic law had been observed ?
The Nassaus ?
Was the Nassaus non-opposition to the prestigious Orange title succession (not speaking of the succession to the dutch throne) part of the bargain that allowed GDk Adolphe to succeed in Luxembourg ?
Assuming that the Spanish monarchy survives for many more years, what would be the royal family’s name once Leonor’s heir takes over? Would they change it to Leonor’s husband’s surname, or would they follow the Dutch, Austrian, and Russian examples and just continue with “Borbon”?
In the Austrian case, Maria Theresa’s father was the last male of the entire house so she was the natural heiress of the name, etc. Not as sure about Romanov, but the Dutch are heirs of Orange (not of Nassau). Leonor is not even close to being heiress of the house of Bourbon. There are over 100 males of that lineage, I think. If the Spanish want the Bourbons that badly she should marry one.
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