Churches Where Royals Married


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The chapel Madeleine and Chris will marry in is amazing!
 
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I love St George's Chapel in Windsor as well as the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Luxembourg.
 
I do believe that's also where Prince Laurent married Claire. :flowers:
Yes. Only Prince AStrid and Archduke Lorenz married at another Church because the Catehdral was under renovation when they married.
 
Hate to say Madrid´s Cathedral is the ugliest of the three for me, with difference. But then again, I´m not a fan of historicist buildings. The environment and the set with the palace are amazing, though. The view of both buildings from the river (they´re placed at the highest point of the city) is simply startling.
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Personally I love the Cathedral of Santa María la Real de La Almudena,not just because of Felipe and Letizia's wedding but I think it fits in well with the façade of the Palacio Real.
 
Personally I love the Cathedral of Santa María la Real de La Almudena,not just because of Felipe and Letizia's wedding but I think it fits in well with the façade of the Palacio Real.

From the outside it looks nice but i don't like the interieur of it very much. And compared to the 2 Cathedrals where his sisters married this was the one who was the last grandest. I loved the Wedding at Sevilla in that majestic Cathedral.
 
From the outside it looks nice but i don't like the interieur of it very much. And compared to the 2 Cathedrals where his sisters married this was the one who was the last grandest. I loved the Wedding at Sevilla in that majestic Cathedral.


That's true Stefan but also worth noting is that the Cathedral of Santa María la Real de La Almudena is a relatively a 'newbie' having only been finished in 1993.Compared to the historic cathedrals of Barcelona and Seville,Madrid is the less majestic.
 
That's true Stefan but also worth noting is that the Cathedral of Santa María la Real de La Almudena is a relatively a 'newbie' having only been finished in 1993.Compared to the historic cathedrals of Barcelona and Seville,Madrid is the less majestic.

Of course but Felipe's marriage was the marriage of the Heir to the throne. Quiet strange when his sisters are married in grander Cathedrals. They could also do something to upgrade the interieur of the Cathedral.
 
Of course but Felipe's marriage was the marriage of the Heir to the throne. Quiet strange when his sisters are married in grander Cathedrals. They could also do something to upgrade the interieur of the Cathedral.

Maybe overtime it will,I can't really recall the interior of Madrid's Cathedral but I do prefer gothic Religious buildings.
 
Of course but Felipe's marriage was the marriage of the Heir to the throne. Quiet strange when his sisters are married in grander Cathedrals. They could also do something to upgrade the interieur of the Cathedral.
Felipe is the heir of the throne, and so he had to marry in Madrid, that was quite logical. But Madrid hasn´t such an impressive Cathedral as both Barcelona and Sevilla has. La Almudena was the best solution, the greatest and most impressive of Madrid´s churches, plus the Cathedral, "home" of the city´s patroness and next to the Royal Palace.

I would have love if they had married at Los Jeronimos, that´s such a beautiful gothic church, King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenia married there, and the sorrounders (Paseo del Prado) are very nice too, but it´s a very little place for such a great wedding (of course, A&VE´s wedding was a small affair compared to F&L´s)

Los Jerónimos:
http://www.spainonline.com/images/MADRID/Iglesias%20y%20Conventos/Madrid-Iglesia%20de%20los%20Jer%C3%B3nimos01.jpg
http://www.pueblos-espana.org/fotos_originales/3/5/3/00010353.jpg
 
Felipe is the heir of the throne, and so he had to marry in Madrid, that was quite logical. But Madrid hasn´t such an impressive Cathedral as both Barcelona and Sevilla has. La Almudena was the best solution, the greatest and most impressive of Madrid´s churches, plus the Cathedral, "home" of the city´s patroness and next to the Royal Palace.

I would have love if they had married at Los Jeronimos, that´s such a beautiful gothic church, King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenia married there, and the sorrounders (Paseo del Prado) are very nice too, but it´s a very little place for such a great wedding (of course, A&VE´s wedding was a small affair compared to F&L´s)

Los Jerónimos:
http://www.spainonline.com/images/MADRID/Iglesias%20y%20Conventos/Madrid-Iglesia%20de%20los%20Jer%C3%B3nimos01.jpg
http://www.pueblos-espana.org/fotos_originales/3/5/3/00010353.jpg

The church of San Jerónimo el Real in Madrid looks simply stunning,plus it was also the setting for Their Majesties enthronement Mass in 1975 and is vastly under used by the Spanish Royal family.
 
Felipe is the heir of the throne, and so he had to marry in Madrid, that was quite logical. But Madrid hasn´t such an impressive Cathedral as both Barcelona and Sevilla has. La Almudena was the best solution, the greatest and most impressive of Madrid´s churches, plus the Cathedral, "home" of the city´s patroness and next to the Royal Palace.

I would have love if they had married at Los Jeronimos, that´s such a beautiful gothic church, King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenia married there, and the sorrounders (Paseo del Prado) are very nice too, but it´s a very little place for such a great wedding (of course, A&VE´s wedding was a small affair compared to F&L´s)

Los Jerónimos:
http://www.spainonline.com/images/MADRID/Iglesias y Conventos/Madrid-Iglesia de los Jerónimos01.jpg
http://www.pueblos-espana.org/fotos_originales/3/5/3/00010353.jpg

Yes i know all this. I wonder where he would have married if there was no Almudena Cathedral. Los Jeronimos is a really beautiful Church but i think it would have been to small for the Wedding of the Heir to the throne. Perhaps they could have then used the Escorial for the Wedding Service. I know it is only for funerals but the Church there is also magnificent.
 
Yes i know all this. I wonder where he would have married if there was no Almudena Cathedral. Los Jeronimos is a really beautiful Church but i think it would have been to small for the Wedding of the Heir to the throne. Perhaps they could have then used the Escorial for the Wedding Service. I know it is only for funerals but the Church there is also magnificent.

Yes I'd agree with you there,the church of San Jerónimo el Real in Madrid would have been too small,I remember watching footage of Their Majesties enthronement Mass in 1975 and it was jammed packed inside.

The Capilla Real and Escorial churches too are also very much under-used by the royal family.
 
They were married in the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwe-Kerk in Zavel.

Royale Huwelijken: Astrid en Lorenz 25 jaar

I believe this is it?

I think the English translation of the church name is Our Lady of Victories or in French Notre Dame .

photo from Wikipedia

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Is Princess Madeleine marrying in the same chapel where they recently had Princess Lillian's funeral? It looks familiar.
 
Yes, it is also the church Princess Estelle was christened!
 
I thought so. It's a beautiful church - can't wait to see how even more beautiful it will be with all the wedding decorations in place!
 
The Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro, dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel (in Portuguese: A Antiga Sé do Rio de Janeiro, dedicated to Nossa Senhora do Monte do Carmo).

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Weddings -

1. Prince Pedro, Prince Royal of Portugal (future Emperor Pedro I of Brazil), and Archduchess Leopoldina of Austria (1817).

2. Princess Francisca of Brazil and Prince François, Prince of Joinville (1843).

3. Princess Januária, Princess Imperial of Brazil, and Prince Luigi, Count of Aquila (1844).

4. Princess Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, and Prince Gaston, Count of Eu (1864).

5. Princess Leopoldina of Brazil and Prince Ludwig of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1864).
 
The Church of Our Lady of the Glory of the Hill (in Portuguese: Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Glória do Outeiro.

http://www.radiocatedral.com.br/two/home/images/outeiro-da-gloria1.jpg

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Weddings -

1. Prince Pedro de Alcântara of Orleans-Braganza and Maria de Fátima de Andrada Baptista de Oliveira de Lacerda Rocha (1974).

2. Prince Fernando of Orleans-Braganza and Maria da Graça de Siqueira Carvalho Baère (1975).

3. Prince Francisco of Orleans-Braganza and Cláudia Regina Borges Martins Godinho (1980).

4. Princess Eleonora of Brazil and Prince Michel of Ligne (1981).

5. Prince Alberto of Orleans-Braganza and Maritza Ribas Bokel (1983).

6. Princess Maria Teresa of Orleans-Braganza and Johannes Hessel de Jong (1995).

7. Princess Maria Pia of Orleans-Braganza and Rodrigo Broglia Mendes (2001).

8. Princess Maria Carolina of Orleans-Braganza and Nuno de Carvalho Moreira (2002).

9. Prince Gabriel of Orleans-Braganza and Luciana de Souza Guaspari (2009).

10. Princess Isabel of Orleans-Braganza and Graf Alexander zu Stolberg-Stolberg (2009).

11. Princess Maria Elisabeth of Orleans-Braganza and Pablo Trindade de Souza (2011).
 
In 1878 King Alfonso XII of Spain and Princess Maria de las Mercedes married at the Church of Atocha in Madrid, Spain.

Archduke Otto of Austria married Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen in the Church of Saint-François-des-Cordeliers in Nancy, Lorraine in 1951.

King Carlos I of Portugal married Princess Amélie of Orleans at the Church of St. Dominic in Lisbon, Portugal.
 
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This is the floorplan from the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam where the Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima of the Netherlands had the religious service for the wedding. The red area in the middle of the transept is where the bridal couple was seated. The grey area in front of the gilded choir-screen was the so-called "liturgical centre".

The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima walked down the aisle towards the "liturgical centre". With another colour scheme the same aisle looked different on Investiture Day (30 April 2013). Another picture of 2002.

The wedding of the Prince of Orange was the very first wedding in the New Church since 1951... The building was in very poor state. After a major restoration in the 1960's (also the reason why Princess Beatrix married in the Westerkerk) the church building was taken out of religious service and has -since then- mainly a museal function. This was the very last wedding before the Prince and it was held in the choir, behind the gilded fence: Mr Cornelis Fleischer and Ms Elizabeth van der Hoeven.
 
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