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There is a very specific flavor of fucked up colonialism when the sectarian club in another country is named for your royal family, even if they never really were part of said kingdom...

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Multiple different kinds of colonialism! William of Orange did invade because the English crown was the wrong flavour of Christian, and then several centuries of home-grown British bullshit putting the boot in.

Yep, and ironically he never was our king, just the steward... Which was largely held by that family for a long time and eventually made hereditary, and then also royalty, but not back then, just a prince. And married to his niece, of course.