Why the Dutch Flag Doesn't Have Orange - The History of the Dutch Flag 

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i really really like the prinsenvlag, its much more fitting with the Netherlands + Flanders with the whole orange thing

From Northern Ireland, came looking for the flag of King William III ! I’ve studied Dutch history vaguely, mainly just from when the De Witts were overthrown, so I was interested as to why the princes flag was phased out. Thank you for this video!

You deserve more views and subs, great insight to Dutch history on your channel. Long live the Netherlands!

I asked the question of the old Prince flag to Derk Willem Visser, a Dutch flag expert. His answer was that the Staten Generaal of the Netherlands had a red flag. The SG was the highest political organisation, the forerunner of the current Dutch parlement. The SG changed to the colours from Orange to Red, because Orange was the colour of the Dutch Prince Willem of Orange. So the SG wanted to display their power by changing the Dutch flag.

My flag does

As a tourist guide in Amsterdam and the Netherlands I do find in all your videos a big inspiration and motivation. This video in particular is indeed a great help for my explanations about the origin of the flag of the Netherlands, which is so interesting. Just as a suggestion, why not a video about the flag of Amsterdam and all the mistery about it? Thank you so much and keep it up! dank u wel!

Great information. The current South Africa flag also has the Netherlands flag in it. It exists along with the African National Congress flag :)

some of my ancestors were Dutch, also Fleming is a Scots name meaning man-from -Flanders apparently experts at some part of the wool trade who were encouraged to emigrate.I was told that ny stubborn nature comes from being Dutch

Thank you for all your content. I am learning a lot about the history of my ancestors. My father immigrated from the Netherlands (Rijnsburg) to Canada (Ontario) with his parents and siblings in 1953, where they continued to farm. Typical story of Dutch immigrants to Canada after WW2. I really appreciate the channel.

Fascinerend, Stefan! Bedankt, ik leerde een aantal nieuwe feiten!

"If it ain,t Dutch, it is,nt much"😂

Sorry, you are wrong about the previous South African flag, what you said about it is a bit insulting for me, lets move forward. That flag was introduced 20 years before Apartheid by It is based on the "Jan van Riebeeck" flag or "Prince's Flag", the period when Dutch settled in Cape Town, nothing to do with right wing.

Good video actually I remember watching this when it came out.

oh wow an actual "fun with flags" episode. This is good stuff

And you also mentioned the fact that Peter the great once visited Armsterdam. The name of St. Petersburg was initially "Sankt-Pieter-Burch"(in Dutch Manner) later he changed it to "Sankt-Peterburg" under German influence. It seems Dutch peoples had a lots of influence on Russian Empire also. The prime minister of Russian Empire "Sergius Witte" who did so much to the sake of the empire was of Dutch ancestry. As we say. If it isn't Dutch, it isn't much.

I like this video about the Dutch flag. Specialy the part about the Staten Vlag. But now rises some questions in my head. The current colors of the Dutch flag was red/white/ dark blue, while the staten vlag is red/white/light blue. Now here is my question. Is the National flag of Luxembourg the actual staten vlag or not? In your video you said it was inpired by the national coat of arms but wasnt luxembourg part of the Netherlands during the 80 year war and therfore used the same colors in the coat of arms like the other coastal provinces. Brussel was part of the Nederlanden as well? And during the republic era of the Netherlands The red/white/blue was on every ship, but wasn't the national flag in that era actualy the yellow flag with the black lion holding 7 arrows corresponding the 7 provinces?

The Orange flag is basiclly the confedrate flag for the Dutch Also im Dutch

One of my french acquaintance used to make a following joke: "A Dutch is standing still. Do you know how to turn him French?" "You knock him out and you make him lie on the ground". I didn't know how to respond to that joke, i mean i didn't get the joke. But as soon as i compared French flag to a dutch flag, i got the joke.

"fun with flags" by sheldon cooper :P I once saw an orange-white-blue flag and thought that it lost its colors because it is probably 100 years old. I learned something again :)

The first tricolored flag in the world

As a child in a US school, I found it difficult to draw fifty white stars on a field of blue in the upper left corner, with crayons. Across our southern border in Mexico, the flag has an eagle, sitting on a cactus, holding a snake. I thought of our school aged Mexican neighbors, sitting at their little desks, trying to cope with eagles and snakes. Ay Chihuahua! One day, I cornered a Mexican-American and asked him about elementary school flag-making. He said, "No we don't draw the eagle, snake, cactus.That image is on the back of our coins. We place a coin under the paper upon which we are drawing the flag.and use the side of a pencil to project the image onto the flag." Mystery solved.

What we where taught at school in South Africa is that the Orange in our then fag originated from the naval flag of the Netherlands but the red would almost always have faded in use on the high seas and sun exposure and thus was orage by the time the ships reached South Africa. Quite the opposite of what you where thuaght why it was changed to red. Then I must admit the Union Jack alwas where as red as can be so it is most likely a folk tale

7:13. Actually it was not based on the Dutch flag, but simply a combination of the royal white with the of blue and red colors of Paris symbolizing the people. Vertical are arrangement stood for the revolution.

Going to the Netherlands in 1991 is one of the best memories in my life. I actually felt strangely like I’d been to Amsterdam before. It was so familiar. We were in Den Haag for Floriade which was there that year.

Good work

It's actually a monarchist flag, so..... it should actually be the national flag! The royal standard uses similair colors!

one thing you see alot of, is the Habsburg relationship withh the low countries. It would be interesting to see a video of the Dukes of Burgundy and their relationship with the Low Countries.

Rumour has it that the flag of Great Colombia was inspired by the one of Russia, being a yellow stripe instead of a white one the only difference. Current flags of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela are kinda similar.

I live in a city that has a direct North Sea passenger, cargo and vehicle ferry link twice a day to Rotterdam and Zeebrugge in Belgium and I have seen the Netherlands flag on many occasions flying on Dutch owned and registered ferries and also many chemical tankers, river and sea cargo vessels, and various other types of ocean going ships. It is quite common to see German, Dutch, Finnish and some Swedish, Danish and Norwegian, and Polish, Russian, Estonian and Latvian etc owned ships with their national flags but it is not often that Belgian or French flags are seen. But the majority of the ships seem to be from the Netherlands.

Very interesting, I had always wondered about the orange vs red flag, questions answered.

Interesting history. Have you read the novel The Sea Beggars by Cecilia Holland? She's an American who's written a lot of historical fiction, though she doesn't so much emphasize the historical details. I found out recently that my family descends from a couple of the most prominent families in early Dutch colonies in the US, in what is now New York and New Jersey. There are a lot of records because the Dutch Reformed Church kept very good history of their members.

I'll keep it short. History Hustle YES. History with Dildobert NO.

Wish we could get rid of the taboo surrounding the orange variant, it’s incredibly pretty, unique in its color combination in contrast to the broadly used red,white & blue. I hope with time the flag can fly again without people having to think twice about the ideology but its country and people that it represents.

Next the Frisian flag?😁

As a Czech i can say that orange-white-light blue variant is much prettier and more original than boring generic flag Netherlands have now.

De Rampjaar 1672

Easily hurted left wing people, haha. I like your non-political, political view

I'm originally Dutch, but I'm now an Indonesian citizen. Our red and white flag (which is the same flag as Monaco!) has various origin stories. The most common narrative is that many standards of various kingdoms on the islands featured red and white prominently as well as on traditional dress. One myth suggests the independence movement tore off the blue from the Dutch flag because blue represented European royalty. Finally, the flag of the Majapahit Empire was 9 alternating red and white stripes (which is still the flag of the Indonesian navy nicknamed the 'war snakes' flag).

Hoi Stefan, I really enjoy your channel, thank you. Another flag based on the Dutch flag is the Indonesian flag. On September 19 1945 the Dutch flag was lowered from Hotel Yamato (Surabaya) and the blue stripe got torn off, they hoisted the red white flag as their national flag.

I've always wondered about the "controversy" of the orange, white and blue flag. Thanks for clearing it up. In a way, here in the U.S. the Confederate Flag is also controversial in similar ways.

Canada's red and white Maple Leaf flag is somewhat of a take on the English St George Cross flag. Whilst the move was a reaction to the overly British Canadian Red Ensign, English heritage was still to strong in Canada to overcome in 1965 hence our flag.

Is it true that Indonesian flag basically dutch flag with the blue removed?

Ik heb de vlag prinsenvlag in huis, niet omdat ik een neonazi of NSBer ben maar omdat ik van de monarchie hou.

If you start swiping on Tinder in the Netherlands you'll see quite a few Dutch girls accidentally using the Luxembourg flag to indicate where they are from. Fun fact. I don't want to make any comments about the intelligence and perhaps easiness of such ladies, but, you know...

De Princevlag, its your heritage as a people, you all should try and reclaim it from the far right just as some Canadians are trying to reclaim out old Red Ensign from our extreme right factions.

The meaning of the Brazilian flag is somehow embarrassing ...2 European royal houses (Bragança and Habsburg) a pretty nice blue armillary sphere though and a bizarre positivist leitmotiv: Order and Progress (it is really working) PS- After independence there is a "new meaning": green for the Nature, yellow for the Gold and so on..

Here in the UK there is a reason why we say "red white and blue", as opposed to the colours in any other order. In the 17th and 18th centuries the Royal Navy was organised into three squadrons, their order of seniority being the Red Squadron, the White Squadron and then the Blue Squadron. Then there was a reorganisation at the turn of the 18th/19th century and all British ships were to fly just the Red Ensign, Royal Navy vessels the White, and other government vessels, plus some other exceptions, flew the Blue ensign, which is the position still today. When I was in the Royal Naval Reserve there was a probably scurrilous story that the French say "Blue, white and red" when describing thier Tricolour in order to be different from us Brits!😂

i'm a bit colour blind and tbh i thought it was orange! ...

Can you do the video about the oldest national anthem the Wilhelmus

What I don't like is that the current flag of the Netherlands is too easy to mix up with that of Luxembourg. Which I think has a slightly lighter blue?

It is really sad that some idiots use this it is a beautiful flag what has sadly been misused i hope in that in the futures our perspective on the Prince flag Will be more positive

Leuk!😊

Is it true Belgium was Dutch territory but the French took it over?

Luxemburg was toch verbonden met het Nederlandse koningshuis in een personele unie, totdat de mannelijke lijn uitstierf?

7:58 yeah because everything racists is right wing i guess ?

You didn't mention the Irish Republican Flag which includes Orange to recognize the Protestant community of Ireland b/c they were led {originally}by the Dutch William of Orange.

Zo zonde. Het is zo'n mooie vlag.

I was watching the video and thinking hmmm... Maybe I'll get one of those cool orange white and light blue flags...? And then came the connection to the right wing people and I was like... Hmmm not so much.

Can’t forget the Bronx! 😂

interesting that dutch national team wears orange :) why luxemburg flag is the old dutch flag?

Ik vind de moderne vlag ook wel mooi! Maar ik vind op een of ander manier de De oude vlag toch wat meer Typisch Hollands, ik weet ook niet waarom! Alleen jammer dat die vlag verpest is door Rare Ultranationalisten, Waarom zijn doe die hatelijke mensen hier nog, waarom is het legal?? Ik ben Zelf Nationalistish maar geen ultranationalist! Goede video trouwens!👍

I had always wondered how did South Africa borrow the Prince's Flag, but the only explanation I got was that in 1928 Afrikaners changed the disliked Union Flag into something "more Dutch" and the Prince's flag just came along (yes sure, but WHY?) while they were - and I hope no Afrikaner reads this - (re)inventing themselves as as a nation (maybe I am being to harsh). And oh, there are many cases of souring of symbols by extremism throughout the history...

Let us not forget The New York METS.

It’s too bad the old Dutch flag with orange has been corrupted by current political groups. Perhaps one similar to the New York State flag with a Dutch coat of arms would be acceptable. It’s a shame that the House of Orange is not represented on the current flag.

I thought the reason was going to be because of the orange/white/blue flag's similarity to the apartheid-era flag of South Africa.

Restore the old flag

if you where looking for this here it is GEKOLONISEERD

O no Some Slavic flags come from the Russian flag, it's true, but the Russian flag comes from the fleet flag of the Byzantine Empire - Russia being the inheritor of that state and a Third Rime Peter the Great went to Netherlands but the Russian flag predates Peter At least that's what I learnt

If i recall well neo nazis used the flag of Von Staiffenberg (he made a new flag for hyphotetic new naziless German free of Hitler)during a manifestation, they used the flag idealized by the man that attempt to kill Hitler 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

let us apply the logic to something else: swastikas are also not nazi because buddhist existed with swastikas before nazis. Fasces are not a fascist symbol because Roman senate guard existed before fascism was a thing. quality logic.

"paris van java & venetie van java" is the name of the city given by the colonial belada to my city in earlier times by the way, now my country is wider than the Netherlands today, whereas in the past my country was occupied for almost 250 years 😂😂

Ik moet eerlijk zijn, deze video is vrij slecht in elkaar gezet (al kan ik je daar niet per se de schuld voor geven). Ik vermoed dat je de Wikipedia-pagina hebt gebruikt, die in zichzelf bevooroordeeld is en weinig (diepgaande) informatie bevat. Een paar punten: 1. De Statenvlag verving *NIET* de Prinsenvlag in de zestiende eeuw, er bestond nooit een wet die de vlag officieel maakte. Hoewel in 1652 het gewest Holland de vlag verbood en de Staatsgezinden de marine _dwongen_ de Prinsenvlag te vervangen ten tijde van het Eerste Stadhouderloze Tijdperk, was het nog altijd onverminderd populair onder het volk en zijn er ook scheepsjournalen die bevestigen dat de vlag tot 1657(!) gehanteerd werd. 2. Zowel de V.O.C. als de W.I.C. hadden een variant van de Prinsenvlag met hun logo's erop, maar vervingen die in de zestiende eeuw omdat zij altijd wat meer Staatsgezind waren (net als Amsterdam zelf overigens). 3. De Prinsenvlag bleef gewoon gebruikt worden voor een breed scala aan reden tot de Fransgezinden de macht overnamen, zij het als simpel teken op zee tot en met een teken van grief toen Koning Willem V op 18 januari 1795 het land moest verlaten richting Engelenad vanwege de oprukkende Patriotten. 4. Tijdens de Bataafse Republiek was de Prinsenvlag al officieel verboden en werd de Bataafse vlag vastgesteld, per resolutie van 14 februari 1796. Het gebruik van de Prinsenvlag of überhaupt de kleuren oranje-blanje-bleu was een teken van verzet geworden waarop hoge straffen stonden, iets wat men vaak genoeg deed. 5. Na de bevrijding van Nederland in 1813 koos de leiding voor de Statenvlag. Waarom weet niemand precies, waarschijnlijk om verdere vetes tussen de Orangisten en Staatsgezinden te voorkomen. Desondanks werd de vlag daarna jarenlang gewoon voor allerlei redenen gebruikt, nota bene tijdens de inhuldiging van Koningin Wilhelmina in 1898. 6. De Prinsenvlag was populair onder het volk nog lang voordat iemand überhaupt wist wie Anton Mussert of de NSB was. In de jaren 20 opperde menigeen man en vrouw in krantenberichten er openlijk voor om de Prinsenvlag de officiële Nederlandse vlag te maken, iets dat zelfs door politici van extreme partijen als... de Sociaal-Democratische Arbeiderspartij werd gesteund. Oh, en er bestond natuurlijk de groep 'De Princevlagge'. Raar dat die niet benoemd werd in de video. 7. Hoewel het klopt dat de NSB de vlag tijdens de oorlog hanteerde, was de NSB voor de langste tijd een (zeer) marginale partij die net zo populair was als de Communistische partij. Dat zij het gebruikten, betekent niet dat iedereen die voor die vlag was een NSB'er was. Om nog maar niet te spreken van het feit dat veel Nederlanders een hekel hadden gekregen aan de NSB en hun achterlijke beleid. 8. Na de oorlog bestond de groep 'De Princevlagge' nog altijd en opperde ze voor precies hetzelfde als voor de oorlog. Weliswaar kort (tot begin jaren 50), maar ze bestonden nog wel. 9. De PVV is geen "extreemrechtse" partij, zeker niet omdat hun economisch beleid vrij links is. 10. De Prinsenvlag is helemaal niet controversieel, dat is het alleen als je die vlag door een politieke lens bekijkt (en zelfs dan nog niet eens meer). De vlag wordt nog altijd gebruikt voor historische gevechten zoals die in Den Briel en als ik het me goed herinner gebruikte de Vlaamse premier De Croo het een tijd terug nog in een video. 11. De vlag is in Vlaanderen nooit controversieel geweest op welke manier dan ook. Meerdere nationalistische studentenverenigingen hebben die vlag expliciet in hun wapenschilden geplaatst en zelfs het oude logo van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel gebruikte die kleuren. Hoe ik dit allemaal weet? Houd de Wiki-pagina in de gaten, dan kom je er vanzelf achter. ;)

Its all ridiculous why the Princenvlag wasn’t used, the First Dutch King (the real one) should have used it after the Napoleonic wars! When a 16th century flag becomes a racist one just because nationalists prefered this one 🤦🏻‍♂️

You should work on your accent. It's really bothering me

I prefer Red and black... But don't ask me why..

Holland not Netherlands. Britain not U.K. United States not United States to America

O nee nederland zinkt neeeeeeeeeeeee

I think this is a big mistake this flag.you are not french!and that should be belgium with this flag and Holland with the belgium flag.you dont speak french,in belgium yes.i hope you will change it one day.it is bizarre.i am from Paris,i never understand that.Or you hate the germans and prefer France...who knows.