Anna of Denmark has been castigated as frivolous, vain, stupid, and more interested in pleasure than politics. This study aims to contextualise her not as a woman of minor significance in relation to the queens regnant of the sixteenth century, but as an inheritor of the bloody legacies of previous consorts north and south of the border.
Author(s): Steven Veerapen
Publisher: Peter Lang
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 298
City: Oxford
Cover
Contents
Introduction
To Be a Consort and Wear a Crown
Part I Denmark
The Danish Girl
The Old Young Man
The Princess Bride
By Weltring Waues
Vehement Winter
Part II Scotland
Anna, Our Welbelovit Queene
The Woman of Property
All of Them Witches
The Invention of Tradition
Strange Bedfellows
Catholic Queen, Kirk and Killer King
And Either Victory or Else a Grave
Part III England
Hail and Welcome, Fairest Queen!
Our Queen Is a Catholic in Heart
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
Rumour Doth Double
Two Fair Youths
Loss and Marriage
Suns That Set
Will Ye No Come Back Again?
For Sure No Good Prince Dies
Bibliography
Index