Editing Anne of Denmark (section)

==Later years and illness==

[[File:EH1393844 Temple Bar 13.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=A photograph of a white statue of a woman clothed in a long robe looking to the right and placing her left hand on her chest in a white archway in a wall|A statue of Anne of Denmark in the [[Temple Bar Gate]]]]
Anne of Denmark received "great good" from recipes provided by [[Walter Raleigh]].{{Sfnp|Birch|Williams|1849|p=97}} The royal physician Sir [[Theodore de Mayerne]] left extensive Latin notes describing his treatment of Anne of Denmark from 10 April 1612 to her death.<ref>[[Joseph Browne (physician)|Joseph Browne]],[https://archive.org/details/b30459709/page/222/mode/2up?q=regina ''Theo. Turquet Mayernii Opera medica: Formulae Annae & Mariae'' (London, 1703), pp. 1–97]</ref>
From September 1614 Anne was troubled by pain in her feet, as described in the letters of her chamberlain [[Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester|Viscount Lisle]] and the countesses of Bedford and Roxburghe.<ref>''HMC Downshire'', vol. 5 (London, 1988), p. 22 no. 56; {{Harvp|Private Correspondence of Jane Lady Cornwallis Bacon |p=41}}</ref> Lisle first noted "the Queen hath been a little lame" as early as October 1611.<ref>William A. Shaw, ''HMC 77 Report on the manuscripts of Lord de l'Isle & Dudley: Sidney Papers 1608–1611'', vol. 4 (London, 1926), p. 294.</ref> She was ill in March 1615, suspected to have dropsy.<ref>''HMC Mar & Kellie'', 2 (London, 1930), p. 59.</ref> In August an attack of [[gout]] forced her to stay an extra week in [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], her second [[Anne of Denmark and the spa at Bath|visit to the spa town for its medicinal waters]].<ref>William Shaw & G. Dyfnallt Owen, ''HMC 77 Viscount De L'Isle Penshurst'', vol. 5 (London, 1961), p. 307.</ref>

Although she danced at a Christmas masque, said to be "a good sign of her convalescence",<ref>G. Dyfnallt Owen, ''HMC Downshire'', vol. 5 (London, 1988), p. 404 no. 839.</ref> in January 1616 she moved from Whitehall Palace to Somerset House suffering from gout. King James planned to visit Scotland, and it was said that she dreamed of ruling England as regent in his absence.{{Sfnp|Birch|Williams|1849|p=385}} The [[Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline|Earl of Dunfermline]] noted in February that "her majesty looks very well, but yet I think is not perfectly well, she infrequently dresses, and keeps her bedchamber and a solitary life most times."<ref>William Fraser, [https://archive.org/details/memorialsofearv200fras/page/134/mode/2up ''Memorials of the Earls of Haddington'', vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1889) p. 134]</ref> James went to Scotland, while Anne stayed at Greenwich Palace and moved to Oatlands in June.{{Sfn|HMC Downshire vol. 6|pp=208 no. 466, 264 no. 574}} She was well enough to go hunting in August 1617.<ref>William Shaw & G. Dyfnallt Owen, ''HMC 77 Manuscripts of the Viscount De L'Isle'', vol. 5 (London, 1962), p. 413.</ref> By late 1617, Anne's bouts of illness had become debilitating; the letter writer [[John Chamberlain (letter writer)|John Chamberlain]] recorded: "The Queen continues still ill disposed and though she would fain lay all her infirmities upon the gout yet most of her physicians fear a further inconvenience of an ill habit or disposition through her whole body."{{Sfnp|Birch|Williams|1849|p=42}}

In December 1617 the Venetian ambassador [[Piero Contarini]] had to wait a few days to get an audience with her because of illness. He described her appearance at Somerset House. She was seated under a canopy of gold brocade. Her costume was pink and gold, low cut at the front in an oval shape, and her [[farthingale]] was four feet wide. Her hair was dressed with [[jewels of Anne of Denmark|diamonds and other jewels]] and extended in rays, or like the petals of a sunflower, with artificial hair. She had two little dogs who barked at the ambassador.{{Sfnp|Calendar of State Papers Venice vol. 15 |pp=80–81}} Contarini had a second audience with Anne in December and was led through private corridors in the palace by a richly dressed lady in waiting carrying a candle.{{Sfnp|Calendar of State Papers Venice vol. 15 |p=85}}

On 9 April 1618 she was well enough to make a shopping trip incognito to the [[Royal Exchange, London|Royal Exchange]], and was discovered, drawing a crowd of onlookers.{{Sfnmp|1a1=Nichols|1y=1828|1p=477|1loc=volume 3|2a1=Chamberlain|2y=1966|2p=144}} She had a nosebleed at Oatlands in September 1618 that confined her to bed and disrupted her travel plans.{{Sfnp|Nichols|1828|p= 493|loc=volume 3}} Lucy, Countess of Bedford, thought it had weakened her, and she appeared "dangerously ill".{{Sfn|Private Correspondence of Jane Lady Cornwallis Bacon |p=93}} In November, a [[Great comet|comet]] was interpreted as a portent of her death, but she was reported to be in good health and had watched a fox hunt from her bedroom window.{{Sfnp|Chamberlain|1966|p=147}} [[Lady Anne Clifford]] recorded that Anne was ill throughout Christmas and missed seeing masque performed at the Whitehall [[Banqueting House]].<ref>Jessica L. Malay, ''Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writings'' (Manchester University Press, 2018), 72.</ref>