Age-old ties between the Netherlands and Britain
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15-10-2018 On 23 and 24 October 2018, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima paid a visit to the United Kingdom at the invitation of Queen Elizabeth II. The ties between the Netherlands and Britain have long been close, as a look at the history of the two countries soon shows. Neighbours across the North Sea, they are linked by marriages, wars, periods of exile and, later, state visits. The first trade agreements go back as far as the early thirteenth century. With the rise of Protestantism in the sixteenth century, the complex process of attraction and opposition between the two nations grew in intensity.