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Find a Grave Memorial ID: 1979. Source citation. British Monarch. Last of the Stuart dynasty. The second daughter of James II and his first wife Anne Hyde, Anne acceded in 1702 following the death of her brother-in-law William III of Orange. She married Prince George of Denmark on July 28, 1683 at St. James Palace.
Anne of Denmark (1574–1619) was the wife of James VI and I, and queen consort of Scotland from 1589, and queen consort of England and Ireland from the union of the Scottish and English crowns in 1603 until her death on 2 March 1619 at Hampton Court. [1] She was buried at Westminster Abbey on 13 May.
Anne's grave in the north eastern area of the Lady Chapel is marked by a modern stone (unfortunately mostly covered by a small organ) which reads: ANNE OF DENMARK QUEEN OF KING JAMES 1st 1619 But her coffin plate gives a longer inscription which can be translated
Anne was buried in the south aisle of the Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey, on 13 May 1619. The catafalque, designed by Maximilian Colt, which was placed over her grave was destroyed during the civil war in the reign of her son, Charles I.
Anne of Denmark (born Dec. 12, 1574—died March 2, 1619) was the queen consort of King James I of Great Britain and Ireland (James VI of Scotland); although she had little direct political influence, her extravagant expenditures contributed to the financial difficulties that plagued James’s regime. The daughter of King Frederick II of ...
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Sophie of Mecklenburg-Gustrow, Queen of Denmark (1557 - 1631) by Hans Kneiper. Anne, her older sister, Elizabeth, and her brother (later Christian IV), spent their first years with their maternal grandparents in Gustrow, a town now in the West Pomeranian region of Germany. In 1579, aged nearly five, she returned to her parents’ court.
By the time of Charles II’s death in 1685 the custom of carrying an effigy at a royal funeral had ceased. Instead a crown on a purple cushion was placed on the coffin. But a wax effigy was made to stand by his grave as he has no monument. This even has silk underwear. Queen Anne. Her effigy is the only seated figure. Frances, Duchess of Richmond
