Prince's Flag

Prince's Flag
Prince's Flag (Dutch: Prinsenvlag)
DesignThree horizontal bands of orange, white and blue
Designed byWilliam the Silent
Reconstructed 1746 ship 'De Utrecht', flying the Prince's flag
Noord-Nieuwland of the Dutch East India Company in Table Bay (1762) flying the Prince's flag
Far right protest in the Netherlands

The Prince's Flag (Dutch: Prinsenvlag) is a Dutch flag, first used in the Dutch Revolt during the late 16th century.

The Prince's Flag is based on the flag of Prince William of Orange-Nassau, hence the name. The colours are orange, white and blue. On the basis of the French names of these colours, orange-blanc-bleu, the flag is also referred to by the Dutch rhymes oranje-blanje-bleu and ranje-blanje-bleu.

This flag is controversial in the Netherlands due to its usage in the past by the pro-Nazi NSB. The flag is now mostly used in the Netherlands by far right activists and in historical re-enactment.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Breaking: It's now 'illegal' to display the apartheid flag in South Africa". The South African. 21 August 2019. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  2. ^ "How an old Dutch flag became a racist symbol". The Economist. 23 June 2015. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 1 June 2022.

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