Thus, he is the last agnatic descendant of William I to be named stadtholder for the majority of the provinces.

Under William III's will, John William Friso stands to inherit the Principality of Orange as well as several lordships in the Netherlands.

He was an agnatic relative of the Princes of Orange, as well as a descendant of William the Silent through a female line.

However, King Frederick I of Prussia also claims the Principality as the senior cognatic heir, stadtholder Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange having been his maternal grandfather and William III his first cousin.

Anne is the mother of seventeen children by her husband Prince George of Denmark, but none of them will survive childhood and she will die without heir to enable the Hanoverian Succession.

In the Netherlands, the Staten Generaal do not appoint a new stadtholder and the United Provinces thus become a true republic again.