Monday, January 28, 2013

Princess Margarita of Baden buried

Princess Margarita of Baden was today buried at the Family burial ground at Salem Stefansfeld where also her parents and grandparents are buried. Among the guests where Duke Friedrich and Duke Ferdinand of Württemberg, Prince Rainer of Hesse, Prince Albrecht of Hohenzollern and Pricne Andreas and Princess Luise zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg. First there was an orthodox Service at Salem Castle. For it the rusiaan-orthodox Archbishop Mark had come from Berlin and a choir of orthodox nuns from Munich. Afterwards there was a procession from the Castle to the closeby burial ground where the actual funeral toke place. Already on 24. January there was an orthodox Service at the St. Sava Church in London. Guests at this Service included Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Anne-Marie of the Hellenes, Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Catherine of Yugoslavia.