William Frederick again would normally have been in line for this office (after all, he was a stadtholder in his own right), except for the same political awkwardness that blocked his appointment to stadtholder in Holland.
Vilhelm Frederik ville normalt normalt have stået i kø til dette embede (trods alt var han selv statholder), hvis det ikke havde været for den samme politiske ulempe, der blokerede for hans udnævnelse til statholder i Holland.