A life-size bronze statue of King William III stands outside of Carrickfergus Castle in Northern Ireland, overlooking the harbor. It was commissioned to mark the 300th anniversary of the king’s 1690 landing in Carrickfergus. William III, born William Henry and commonly known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from the time he was born, as his father William II died a week before the prince’s birth in 1650. Young William was born in the Protestant Dutch Republic to Mary, the eldest daughter of King Charles of…
