This was Kew's first church. Its inception was by twelve of the major Kew landholders who together committed to subscribing £122 on 18 August 1710. Subsequent major subscriptions came from Lady Dorothy Capel who gave more than £100 and Queen Anne whose permission for its erection was sought and given as was £100 and the site.

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Kew Past

There is a certificate of marriage, on view in the Public Record Office in Kew, which records the marriage of the then Prince of Wales to Hannah Lightfoot by a Dr Wilmot, in the presence of William Pitt, in St Anne's church. Wilmot had supposedly just effected the clandestine marriage of his daughter to the Duke of Cumberland, the Prince's brother. Hannah died in 1765 after bearing three of George's children. The eldest, George Rex after having lived in Kew as a young man and favoured by the king was sent to South Africa. A Mrs Ryves attempted with a case that it took her 20 years to bring to court in 1866 to prove that she was a legitimate descendant of Cumberland.

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Kew Past

Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, from Cambridge Cottage, was proposed to by His Serene Highness the Duke of Teck in the Rhododendron Dell of Kew Gardens and married him here with Queen Victoria and Edward, Prince of Wales, in attendance. Their eldest daughter, May, was engaged to both Edward's sons and as the consort of the second, George V, became Queen Mary.

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Kew Past