How the Netherlands became a kingdom?

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Did you know that Napoleon Bonaparte played a huge role in making the Netherlands a kingdom? Napoleon sent his brother Louis Napoleon Bonaparte to rule over the Netherlands as a puppet state of the French Empire.

But contrary to expectations, Louis took his job seriously, and started fostering a Dutch national sense of identity. He undertook many lasting reforms and became popular with the Dutch. Sadly, he was forced to retire four years into his reign by his brother.

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The Kingdom consists of four parts, the Netherlands, Aruba, Curacao, and Sint Maarten. All are constituent countries, and participate on a basic of equality as partners in the Kingdom.

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In practice, however, most of the affairs are administered by the Netherlands, compromising 98% of the Kingdom’s land.

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Most scholars agree that it is difficult to group the constitutional arrangements of the Kingdom in one of the traditional models. They consider the Kingdom to be a sui generis arrangement.

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How the Netherlands became a kingdom?