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Anne of Denmark
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Anne of Denmark (October 14, 1574 – March 4, 1619) was queen consort of King James I of England and VI of Scotland.
Anne was a daughter of Frederick II of Denmark and Norway and Sophia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. She was born in 1574 at Skanderborg Castle, Denmark. The dates of her birth and death are variously recorded, those above being the ones engraved on her coffin. In August 1589, she was married, by proxy, to James, the young king of Scotland, and their actual wedding ceremony took place in Oslo, Norway, on November 23 of that year. Anne was brought to Scotland and crowned queen on May 17, 1590, at Holyrood Abbey.
Although James and Anne were very close at the beginning of their marriage, they gradually drifted apart. Though she had been brought up a Lutheran, she converted to Catholicism in the mid 1590s. This made her unpopular among the people of Presbyterian Scotland (and later, of Anglican England).
Following her husband's accession to the English throne in 1603, she was crowned with him on July 25 at Westminster Abbey. By this time, she was the mother of three living children (Henry, Elizabeth and Charles), but also suffered several miscarriages and stillbirths, and had another four children who died in infancy. Anne's participation in life at court is well recorded. Their second son succeeded James as King Charles I. Her daughter Elizabeth was the grandmother of King George I of England.
Anne of Denmark died at Hampton Court Palace aged 44 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
- In the United States, Wild carrot plant flower is known as Queen Anne's lace in reference to Anne of Denmark.
- Peter the Elder, the (co-)inventor of the obstetrical forceps, became her obstetrician when she moved to England.
| Preceded by James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell |
Queen Consort of Scotland 1589–1619 |
Succeeded by Henrietta Maria of France |
| Preceded by Philip II of Spain |
Queen Consort of England 1603–1619 |