Orangism (Kingdom of the Netherlands)

This article is about Dutch monarchism. For the pre-1795 pro-Stadtholder party, see Orangism (Dutch Republic). For other uses, see Orangism.

In the context of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Orangism is royalism that favors the House of Orange's rules as kings and queens. Orangism became a political force in the 1860s, when it was embraced by the dominant liberal tendency. Though presented as a national, a-political stance, to gather the support of monarchist Protestants and Catholics, liberal Orangism was in fact an attempt at achieving national unity at the expense of socialist and denominational politics.