I just checked to see if the children of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and his wife were baptized and raised as Anglicans. The Wikipedia entry (yes, I know -- I'm on vacation, away from my books) for Marie of Romania says that they were, and that this was upsetting to the Duchess of Edinburgh. Marie, of course, ended up marrying a Roman Catholic who became King of a largely Orthodox country, and I believe that their children were all baptized and raised in the Orthodox faith. I can't remember whether Marie became Orthodox or remained Anglican. Ducky too eventually married an Orthodox husband. All this may have been a source of satisfaction for their mother, but they certainly had a complex family situation where religious affiliation was concerned. I have read that the late Duke of Edinburgh (Philip, not Alfred) retained an attachment to the Orthodox faith in which he had been raised. Royal marriages, even with Catholics excluded, created some interesting situations in religious terms.
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I'm not sure how things worked out for Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, who married the Duke of Kent (fourth son of King George V.
When Princess Marina married Prince George, Duke of Kent they had the Anglican Wedding at Westminster Abbey and this was followed by a Greek ceremony in the private chapel at Buckingham Palace, which was converted into an Orthodox chapel for the ceremony.
Her funeral at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in 1968 was conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archimandrite of the Greek Orthodox Church.
What form of Christianity she held privately and worshipped in her private life, we don't know.