Anne of Denmark

Anne of Denmark is represented in the linked historical fiction and non-fiction through court politics and dynastic power, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and political ambition and government. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.

In Naomi Kelsey’s The Burnings, their lives intersect through the marriage of James VI of Scotland and Anne of Denmark, whose storm-disrupted voyages become the foundation for claims that supernatural enemies are conspiring against the crown.

In non-fiction, Anne of Denmark is discussed in Gareth Russell’s The Six Loves of James I. In Gareth Russell’s The Six Loves of James I, James’s traumatic childhood, intellectual interests, belief in divine kingship and hopes for union are examined beside his marriage to Anne of Denmark and his attachments to five men.