Anglo-Dutch relations

Dutch-British relations

Netherlands	United Kingdom
Envoy
Ambassador Laetitia van den Assum	Sir Geoffrey Adams

The Netherlands and the United Kingdom have a strong political and economic partnership.

Over forty Dutch towns and cities are twinned with British towns and cities. Linguistic ties include the fact that both English and Dutch are West Germanic languages, with West Frisian, a minority language in the Netherlands being the closest relative of the English Language if one excludes Scots, which is sometimes considered a dialect of English. In addition, between 90% and 93% of people in the Netherlands claim to speak English while a negligible percentage of British people can speak Dutch.

The Netherlands has an embassy in London, and the United Kingdom has an embassy in The Hague and a consulate in Amsterdam. The UK also has a consulate in Willemstad, Curaçao.

There are also strong ties between the UK's overseas territory of Anguilla and Sint Maarten of the Netherlands.

The Anglo-Dutch wars were battles between England (and the Kingdom of Great Britain during the fourth war) and the Dutch Republic during the 17th and 18th centuries. There were four wars in total, two were won by each side, and ended with the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War. The wars were largely fought to secure trade routes and to enable colonial expansion.

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