Christina Reinira van Reede

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Christina Reinira van Reede (14 August 1776, Utrecht - 18 December 1847, The Hague) was a Dutch courtier and noble orangist heroine. She became famous for saving the orangist general Van der Capellen from French imprisonment in 1813.

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