Anna Pavlovna of Russia was Queen of the Netherlands by marriage to King William II of the Netherlands. She was a Russian patriot who upheld a strict royal etiquette in the Netherlands, where she neve
1837 portrait
Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna of Russia, circa 1813
1824–1825 portrait of Pavlovna by George Dawe
The royal family by Van der Hulst
William II was King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Duke of Limburg. He reigned for just under nine years, making him the shortest-reigning monarch in Dutch history.
Anna Pavlovna of Russia
…Russian: Анна Павловна ; Dutch: Anna Paulowna ; 18 January [O.S. 7 January] 1795 – 1 March 1865) was Queen of the Netherlands by marriage to King William II of the Netherlands. She was a Russian patriot who upheld a strict royal etiquette in the Netherlands, where she never felt at home, and identified more as an imperial…
Portrait by Nicolaas Pieneman, c. 1849
William II at the Battle of Waterloo, by Nicaise de Keyser, 1846
Portrait of William II and Anna Pavlovna (1816) by Jan Willem Pieneman
Portrait of William II, painted in 1817 by Karel Pieter Verhulst