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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 317635, member: 2844&quot;]It referred to William the Silent who was of the German Nassau family. The anthem is actually an ode to the guy, written in 1570. It is called the Wilhelmus, after William, who was called the Silent because he spoke a lot but said very little.</p><p>It remained an Orangist/royalist song during our history as the first modern republic, and became our national anthem in 1932, when it was decided we needed a different anthem.</p><p>The first line of the old one was &quot;Those through whose veins flows Netherlands blood, free of foreign contamination&quot;.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" /> Not only highly discriminatory, but it is almost impossible to find someone of pure Dutch ancestry.</p><p>I agree we needed another one, but why this extremely Orangist/royalist ode? Why not something that unites everyone, including those who have always fought for the good old Dutch republican tradition, and their descendants. We were doing fine before royalty was forced upon us by outside forces. </p><p>I know, I&#039;m off on one of my rants again, and as you may have guessed, I come from one of those old republican families who built our nation.</p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie65" alt=":muted:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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