![]() ![]() In January 1605 Sir Richard Leveson talked to one of the royal physicians, and had courtiers praise Anne Newdigate to the queen in an unsuccessful attempt to get her made nurse. The nobility and gentry competed for places in the establishment for the unborn child. ![]() ![]() Anne went to Greenwich after the performance of the Masque of Blackness in January, as Dudley Carleton described it, "to lay down her great belly". There was an outbreak of smallpox at court and the doctors tried to stop her visiting a favourite maid of honour who had fallen ill. The queen's doctors advised her to go Greenwich Palace in December 1604 because it was thought to be healthier. The first child to be born to Anne and James after James succeeded Elizabeth I of England, her birth was thus awaited with much excitement among both the Scottish and the English. She developed pneumonia at 17 months and died the following year. Mary Stuart (8 April 1605 – 16 September 1607) was the third daughter and sixth child of James VI and I by Anne of Denmark. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |