Name Princess of | Parents John Bowes-Lyon | |
Born 4 December 1917Washington, D.C., U.S. ( 1917-12-04 ) Issue Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of LichfieldLady Elizabeth Shakerley Mother The Hon. Fenella Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis Spouse Prince George Valdemar of Denmark (m. 1950–1980), Thomas Anson, 4th Earl of Lichfield (m. 1938) Children Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield Cousins Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret - Countess, Margaret Rhodes, Timothy Bowes‑Lyon - 16th Earl, Simon Bowes‑Lyon Similar People Queen Elizabeth The Quee, Elizabeth II, Patrick Anson - 5th Earl of Lic, Cecilia Bowes‑Lyon - Countess, Claude Bowes‑Lyon - 14th Earl | ||
Princess Anne of Denmark (formerly Anne Anson, Viscountess Anson, née Anne Ferelith Fenella Bowes-Lyon; 4 December 1917 – 26 September 1980) was the mother of royal photographer Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield and Lady Elizabeth Anson, first cousin of Elizabeth II, and a Princess of Denmark through her second marriage.
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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," 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:
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.