Editing Spanish match (section)

==Background==
[[File:Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia from NPG.jpg|thumb|left|Portrait of Princess [[Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia|Elizabeth Stuart]], later Queen of Bohemia, called the Winter Queen. The black armband is thought to be a sign of mourning for her brother [[Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales|Henry Frederick]].]]

A Spanish marriage for [[Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales]], Charles's elder brother who had died in 1612, had been proposed by his mother [[Anne of Denmark]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Pauline Gregg|author-link = Pauline Gregg|title=King Charles I|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h2v69fUCDxYC&pg=PA73|year=1984|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-05146-1|page=73}}</ref> After his death she supported the idea of a Spanish marriage for her daughter [[Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia|Elizabeth]], but in 1613 Elizabeth [[Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate|married a prominent Protestant German prince]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Clare McManus|title=Women on the Renaissance Stage: Anna of Denmark and Female Masquing in the Stuart Court (1590-1619)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AXqmyxaZMV8C&pg=PA136|year=2002|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-6250-6|page=136}}</ref> For her second son Charles, there were candidate marriages mooted from [[Duchy of Savoy|Savoy]] and [[Grand Duchy of Tuscany|Tuscany]], as well as Spain and [[Kingdom of France|France]]. From 1614 to her own death in 1619, Queen Anne gave some support to a Spanish match, preferring at times a French marriage, and recognising that the Spanish proposals were entirely based on self-interest.<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=559|title=Anne|first1=Maureen M.|last1=Meikle|first2=Helen|last2=Payne}}</ref> A point brought up against it in 1620 was that the previous "Spanish matches", those that had brought [[Catherine of Aragon]] to England, and [[Philip II of Spain]] to marry [[Mary I of England|Mary I]], had in the popular memory turned out badly.<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=70628|title=Alured, Thomas|first=Simon|last=Healy}}</ref>