The main residence of her and Willem II was Kneuterdyk Palace in The Hague. The apartments of Anna were on the first floor. The cupola over the central entrance of the palace was her chapel. When as a widow she left the palace and moved to another smaller residence near to where currently the Peace Palace is located she used a second country house on the grounds as her chapel. For her entire life in the Netherlands she had her own Orthodox church staff including a choir. After her death the ritual objects from her chapel went to the Russian Orthodox Church in The Hague.
At Soestdijk Palace her daughter had a small farm and the three sons a small house. After the death of her second, most favourite son, Alexander his little house became another chapel.
Her oldest sister Alexandra Pavlovna was supposed to marry king Gustav IV of Sweden. But her grandmother Tsarina Catherine the Great would no hear of her granddaughter changing religion. She later married an Austrian Archduke.
Catherine Pavlovna first married a prince of Oldenburg and they and their sons lived in Russia. After his death she remarried her first cousin crown prince Wilhelm of Wurttemberg. He had become king by the time she died. She was buried in an orthodox mausoleum especially built for her.
King Willem I of the Netherlands tried to unite most of the various protestant denominations in his kingdom (sometimes hard handed leading to some group fleeing the country). Since the start of the monarchy only special chapels for the Orthodox Russian Grand Duchess were needed.
While there had been chapels for the stadholder and his wife at the Inner Court in The Hague as well as at other residences like het Loo, Huis ten Bosch, Honselaersdyk and Breda only one remained after the introduction of the monarchy: the one of Het Loo Palace.
That chapel was intended for both the Anglican service for Mary II and protestant service for William III. It lost the high alter later on and still is used. It's become a favourite place to baptise children. The children of Prince Constantijn and most if not all of the grandchildren of Princess Margriet were baptised there.
Since royals have traditionally been expected (if not required) to marry only their own kind, dynastic unions have historically involved persons who were (closely or distantly) related by blood, but who nevertheless were strangers -- having different nationalities.
This, in turn, meant that they oftentimes had different church affiliations -- despite all European royals (excepting the Albanians) being Christians. After all, they've traditionally been expected to share the religions of their countries -- notwithstanding occasional exceptions.
Even Lutherans and Calvinists, although both Protestants, technically belong to different churches. With this in mind, I've often wondered how European countries governed by hereditary monarchies accommodated the spiritual needs of foreigners -- typically princesses.
Were there any Orthodox churches in the United Kingdom, prior to the marriage in 1874 of the Duke of Edinburgh and the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia? I don't believe that there was any precedent for an interfaith Anglican-Orthodox royal union, until that point. How about the continent? According to the historical record, the Romanov women also married into the German, Dutch, and Swedish dynasties. Were Orthodox chapels built specifically for them?
Some time ago, I asked whether there were any Lutheran churches in the United Kingdom, and Anglican churches in Germany and Scandinavia: the answer was in the affirmative. What I'm wondering, however, is whether such parishes were built specifically for the sake of foreign royals. For who, other than British princesses, would have any need of Anglican services in Germany?
Of course, German and Scandinavia royals would not have been the only ones in need of Lutheran churches in the UK, which has historically been more cosmopolitan. Similarly, the Dutch royals would not have been the only ones in need of Calvinists services. I would imagine that both churches have long histories in the country.
As for the Netherlands, I would imagine that Lutheran churches have a long history there, too -- serving the needs of persons who were not necessarily royal (just as there undoubtedly have always been Calvinist churches in Germany and Scandinavia).
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia and Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia traveled to Holland in 1938, where his grandfather (Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany) was living in exile, to undergo a third wedding ceremony -- this time in a Protestant church. I'm assuming that it was Lutheran ...
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