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Anne Oldenburg

1574-1619
Born: Skanderborg Castle, Jutland, Denmark
Died: Richmond, Surrey, , England

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  • Story: Anne Of Denmark

    <font face="Georgia">Anne of Denmark, queen consort of </font><font face="Georgia">King James I</font><font face="Georgia"> of England, was born in 1574, daughter of King Frederick II of Denmark and Norway.&nbsp;&nbsp; In 1589, at age 15, she married King James (then King James VI of Scotland)&nbsp;&nbsp;by proxy in Kronborg Castle in Oslo, Norway.&nbsp;&nbsp; The royal couple proceeded to have eight children.&nbsp;&nbsp; Their first child, </font><font face="Georgia">Prince Henry</font><font face="Georgia">, was born in 1594, followed by daughters </font><font face="Georgia">Elizabeth</font><font face="Georgia"> (1596) and Margaret (1598), son Charles, later </font><font face="Georgia">King Charles I</font><font face="Georgia"> of England (1600), son Robert (1602), an unnamed son who died in his infancy (1603), daughter Mary (1605), and lastly daughter Sophia (1606).&nbsp;&nbsp; Child mortality rate was high in the seventeenth century, a fact even the royalty could not escape &mdash; in addition to the unnamed child, Anne lost Margaret at 14 months of age, Robert at the age of 4 months, Mary at 2 years, and one-day-old Sophia&mdash;only three made it to adulthood.&nbsp;&nbsp; It was after Sophia&#39;s death that the couple, who had never had much in common, decided to live apart.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Although Anne had been brought up as a Lutheran, she had become a Roman Catholic during the 1590s.&nbsp;&nbsp; When James succeeded to the English throne as James I after the death of </font><font face="Georgia">Queen Elizabeth I</font><font face="Georgia"> in 1603, James and Anne were crowned together at </font><font face="Georgia">Windsor Castle</font><font face="Georgia">, but Anne caused embarrassment by refusing to take Anglican communion.&nbsp;&nbsp; Anne&#39;s Roman Catholic sympathies continued to be a source of embarrassment to King James throughout his reign.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Anne devoted herself to court entertainments, spending extravagantly on the production of masques, including </font><font face="Georgia">Jonson</font><font face="Georgia">&#39;s </font><em><font face="Georgia">Masque of Blackness</font></em><font face="Georgia">, in which she herself took part as a masquer.&nbsp;&nbsp; Anne also had a flair for expensive clothing, and costly building projects, which all added to the financial difficulties of James&#39; reign.&nbsp;&nbsp;The loss of a husband&#39;s affections, or financial troubles, however, were nothing compared to the direst loss of Anne&#39;s life:&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font face="Georgia">Henry, Prince of Wales</font><font face="Georgia">, future King of England, met an untimely death in Novermber 1612, at the age of 18.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some three months later in February 1613, Anne&#39;s second child, </font><font face="Georgia">Elizabeth</font><font face="Georgia">, wed </font><font face="Georgia">Frederick</font><font face="Georgia">, Elector Palatine, in the palace at Whitehall.&nbsp;&nbsp; In 1616, Anne saw her son </font><font face="Georgia">Charles</font><font face="Georgia"> created Prince of Wales.&nbsp;&nbsp; Anne of Denmark passed away on March 4 1619 at Hampton Court Palace, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. </font>

  • Story: Anne Of Denmark

    British, Scottish Monarch. The daughter of Frederick II of Denmark and Sophia of Mecklenburg, she married King James VI of Scotland by proxy in August of 1589 and in person on November 23 of that year. She was unpopular with the people of Scotland, and when James ascended the throne of England as James I in 1603, she caused great embarrassment when she refused to take Anglican communion during their coronation. She had 8 children, only 3 survived infancy. As her husband had definite homosexual preferences, they lived largely separate lives. Anne occupied herself with entertainments at court, having a penchant for staging and acting in elaborate masques. This coupled with her Catholic faith, taste for expensive clothes and costly building projects made her as unpopular with her English subjects as she had been with the Scottish, and added to the great financial difficulties of James&#39; reign.

 
 
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