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===Stirling to Windsor Castle=== [[File:Coat of Arms of Anne of Denmark.svg|thumb|Anne of Denmark's coat of arms.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Maclagan |first1=Michael |title=Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe |date=1999 |page=27 |place=London |publisher=Little, Brown & Co |isbn=978-1-85605-469-0 |last2=Louda, JiΕΓ |author-link1=Michael Maclagan}}</ref> Depicting the [[Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom|Royal Coat of Arms of England, Scotland and Ireland]] impaled with her father's arms as [[King of Denmark]]. The shield is surmounted by a crown, and supported by a lion and a savage.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Pinces |first1=John Harvey |title=The Royal Heraldry of England |date=1974 |page=170 |series=Heraldry Today |place=Slough, Buckinghamshire |publisher=Hollen Street Press |isbn=978-0-900455-25-4 |last2=Pinces |first2=Rosemary}}</ref>]] After a brief convalescence from the [[miscarriage]], Anne travelled from Stirling to Edinburgh, where several English ladies had gathered, hoping to join her court,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dalyell |first=John Graham |date=28 August 1798 |title=Fragments of Scotish history |url=http://archive.org/details/fragmentsscotis00dalygoog |publisher=Edinburgh : A.Constable |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> including [[Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford]], and [[Frances Howard, Countess of Kildare]].{{Sfnp|Barroll|2001|p=45}} Anne ordered a new gown of figured taffeta and had her white satin gown refashioned.<ref>Clara Steeholm & Hardy Steeholm, ''James I of England: The Wisest Fool in Christendom'' (London, 1938), p. 213.</ref> New clothes were bought for her entourage, and her jester [[Tom Durie]] was given a green coat.<ref>Karen Hearn, ''Dynasties: Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England'' (London, 1995), p. 194.</ref> [[Marmaduke Darrell]] was sent from London with money for the expenses of her journey and the group of ladies sent by the [[Privy Council of England|Privy Council]] to attend her.{{Sfnp|Devon|1836|pp=2β3}} Anne duly travelled south with Prince Henry, their progress causing a sensation in England. Princess [[Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia|Elizabeth]] followed two days later and soon caught up, but [[Charles I of England|Prince Charles]] was left at Dunfermline, being sickly.{{Sfnp|Stewart|2003|p=171}} Anne kept with her the body of the child she had miscarried.{{Sfnp|McManus|2002|p=91}} She was met at York on 11 June by [[Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter|Thomas Cecil, Lord Burghley]]. He wrote to [[Sir Robert Cecil]], "she will prove, if I be not deceived, a magnifical prince, a kind wife and a constant mistress".{{Sfn|Calendar of the Manuscripts of Marquess of Salisbury vol. 15 (1930)|p=133}} Her large crowd of followers was disorderly and there were quarrels between the [[Archibald Campbell, 7th Earl of Argyll|Earl of Argyll]] and the [[Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex|Earl of Sussex]], and between [[Thomas Somerset, 1st Viscount Somerset|Thomas Somerset]] and [[Catherine Murray, Lady Abercairny|William Murray]] who argued about the role of Master of Horse.<ref>Maurice Lee, ''Dudley Carleton to John Chamberlain: Jacobean Letters'' (Rutgers, 1972), p. 35.</ref> The [[Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox|Duke of Lennox]] and the Earls of [[Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury|Shrewsbury]] and [[George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland|Cumberland]] made a proclamation at [[Worksop Manor]] that her followers should put aside any private quarrels, and hangers-on without formal roles should leave.<ref>[[Mary Anne Everett Green|Green, Mary Anne Everett]], [https://archive.org/details/calendarstatepa00greegoog/page/24/mode/2up ''Calendar of State Papers Domestic, 1603β1610''] (London, 1857), p. 24 TNA SP 14/2 f.13]</ref> Courtiers and gentry made efforts to meet her on her journey. [[Lady Anne Clifford]] recorded that she and her mother killed three horses in their haste to see the Queen at [[Dingley, Northamptonshire|Dingley]]. In the great hall at [[Windsor Castle]], "there was such an infinite number of lords and ladies and so great a Court as I think I shall never see the like again."{{Sfnp|Willson|1963|pp=164β165}} Lady Anne Clifford was thirteen years old at the time.{{Sfnp|Williams|1970|p=79}} Anne and James were [[Coronation of James I and Anne|crowned at Westminster Abbey]] on 25 July 1603. The coronation prayers for Anne alluded to [[Esther]], the [[Parable of the Ten Virgins|Wise Virgins]], and other Biblical heroines.<ref>[[John Wickham Legg]], [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044055077309&view=1up&seq=187&skin=2021 ''Coronation Order of James I'' (London, 1902), pp. 45β50 from Lambeth MS 1075b]</ref>
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