Princess Anne of Denmark

Princess Anne of Denmark (born Anne Ferelith Fenella Bowes-Lyon; 4 December 1917 – 26 September 1980) was the mother of royal photographer Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, a first cousin of Elizabeth II, and a Princess of Denmark through her second marriage.

Family

Anne Bowes-Lyon was born in Washington, D.C., in 1917. Her father was the Hon. John Herbert Bowes-Lyon, an elder brother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her mother was the Hon. Fenella Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, daughter of Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton. Anne had three sisters, two of whom were Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon. These sisters were later known as "the Queen's hidden cousins,"^[1] institutionalized since 1941 for severe mental retardation.

Anne's paternal grandfather was Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, father of her aunt Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, who was born Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.

Marriages

Anne married Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas William Arnold Anson (1913–1958) on 28 April 1938. As her husband held the courtesy title of Viscount Anson, Anne was styled Viscountess Anson upon their marriage. They were divorced in 1948. They had two children, four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren:

• (Thomas) Patrick John Anson (25 April 1939 – 11 November 2005), who later succeeded his grandfather as the 5th Earl of Lichfield. He married Lady Leonora Grosvenor, daughter of the Duke of Westminster, on 8 March 1975 and they were divorced circa 1986. They have three children and two grandsons.
• Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Anson (7 June 1941), who married Sir Geoffrey Adam Shakerley, 6th Baronet on 27 July 1972 and were divorced in 2009. They have one daughter and two grandchildren:
  • Fiona Elizabeth Fenella Shakerley (18 August 1973), who married Edward Brocas Burrows, son of Anthony Richard Brocas Burrows and Angela Margaret Sheffield, in 2004
    • Noah Burrows (1 March 2006)
    • Ruby Burrows (2008)

On 16 September 1950, at Glamis Castle she subsequently married Prince George Valdemar of Denmark, upon which she became Princess Anne of Denmark. Her second husband was a great-grandson of both King Christian IX of Denmark and King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway.

Anne died in 1980, aged 62, in London, of a myocardial infarction.^[2]

Ancestry

Notes

Danish princesses by marriage
The generations are numbered from the implementation of hereditary monarchy by Frederick III in 1660.
1st generation	Landgravine Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel Princess Anne of York
2nd generation	Duchess Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow
3rd generation	Margravine Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
4th generation	Princess Louise of Great Britain
5th generation	Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
6th generation	Landgravine Marie of Hesse-Kassel Duchess Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Princess Caroline Amalie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg Princess Caroline of Denmark^
7th generation	Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark^
8th generation	Princess Louise of Sweden and Norway Princess Marie of Orléans
9th generation	Duchess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Princess Maud of Wales Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg Princess Sophia of Prussia* Princess Marie Bonaparte* Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia* Princess Alice of Battenberg* Nancy Leeds* Princess Françoise of Orléans* Princess Margaretha of Sweden
10th generation	Princess Ingrid of Sweden Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark^ Princess Elisabeth of Romania* Aspasia Manos* Princess Frederica of Hanover* Anne Bowes-Lyon
11th generation	Princess Anne Marie of Denmark*^
12th generation	Mary Donaldson Alexandra Manley** Marie Cavallier Marie-Chantal Miller* Tatiana Blatnik*
*also a princess of Greece by marriage ^also a Danish princess by birth **title lost due to divorce and subsequent remarriage