 The current flag, introduced in 1908, is a square orange flag, divided in four quarters by a nassau-blue cross.These colours refer to the principality of Orange (in France) and the principality of Nassau (in Germany) from which the present royal family originates.In the centre of the flag is the lesser coat of arms of the Kingdom (which originates as a composite of features taken from the arms of the house of Nassau and the arms of the Dutch republic) surmounted by a royal crown and surrounded by the insignia of the Grand Cross of the Military William Order.