In all Willem-Alexander does descent from William the Silent in multiple ways as do all of his reigning colleagues in Europe and most of the European pretenders.
They even go further in conspiracy theories.
The three main ones are:
1 Willem V was not the son of Stadholder Willem IV but of his wife Anna of Great-Britain and her lover (a Frisian count). they forget that Anna knew very well what happens to royal wives who cheat on their husband as she knew the story of her paternal grandmother by heart.
2 King Willem III was not the biological father of Queen Wilhelmina. Something that really does not matter as she was legally his daughter and her mother Queen Emma descents from William the Silent in several lines..
3 Queen Juliana was not the child of Wilhelmina and Hendrik. The story that goes is that they did have a daughter in 1909 but she had Down syndrome and the couple replaced their daughter by another girl born near Soestdijk Palace. That totally does not explain why Queen Wilhelmina had at least 2 other miscarriages after the birth of her daughter and why they went for a girl and not a boy. It also does not explain how a baby born in The Hague was replaced by another child born possibly 2 years earlier miles away in the centre of the country.
Of course all three theories are untrue. The Princess of Orange, Anne was way too well aware of what happened in both her dynasty and that of her husband with Royal women who tried to pass off their extra-marital offspring as legitimate.
Queen Emma had no opportunity to conceive a child with anyone other than her much older husband. He was the only man she ever was alone with in a room. The child born was not the much desired son, but a daughter who for the first couple of years of her life did not guarantee she would get the throne for Emma's offspring. Worse Emma never even had another pregnancy that might have resulted in a son that would have secured the throne for Emma's line.
As for Juliana not being the child of Wilhelmina and Hendrik the theory is too far fetched to even consider realistically.
Besides her parents lost several children and on the advice of their doctors did abstain from conceiving for several years in order to restore her mother's health. Wilhelmina had at least six pregnancies, one resulting in a stillborn son, one in her heiress Juliana and four in miscarriages. That is not unusual. It's unfortunately the fate of many other couples up to these days.
That the successor of his arch rival Philip II of Spain is also a descendant of William the Silent is something that they never write about.
Fortunately what both descendants (Willem-Alexander and Felipe VI) share is that they take their role seriously and have by the way they take on their role as monarch secured respect and support for the institution. WA had an easier job than Felipe as the institution wasn't as much under scrutiny in The Netherlands as it was in Spain.
But the current king DOES descend from William the Silent :
http://roglo.eu/roglo?lang=pt;spouse=on;m=RL;i=5207350;l1=12;i1=5207154;l2=0;i2=5207350
From several lines
http://roglo.eu/roglo?lang=pt;em=R;ei=5207154;spouse=on;et=A;color=;i=5207350
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