ABSTRACT
The last chapter focused on roles of leadership and forms of governance but these were not the only ways in which people could hold or enact power. In this chapter we focus on complex relationships and alliances of power and subordination that were both horizontal and vertical and across dynastic branches, as they were experienced and enacted through letters of legitimate and illegitimate siblings within the House of Orange-Nassau and with their aunts, uncles and cousins in the wider Nassau dynasty.
