Editing James VI and I (section)

===Marriage===
[[File:Marriage contract between Princess Anna of Denmark and Jacob 6. of Scotland 1589.jpg|thumb|1589 marriage contract between James and Anne of Denmark]]
[[File:John De Critz Anne of Denmark 1605.jpg|thumb|Queen Anne {{Circa}} 1605, portrait attributed to [[John de Critz]]]]

Throughout his youth, James was praised for his chastity, since he showed little interest in women. After the loss of Lennox, he continued to prefer male company.{{Sfn|Croft|2003|pp=23–24}} A suitable marriage, however, was necessary to reinforce his rule, and the choice fell on fourteen-year-old [[Anne of Denmark]], younger daughter of the Protestant Danish king [[Frederick II of Denmark|Frederick II]]. Shortly after a [[proxy marriage]] in Copenhagen in August 1589, Anne sailed for Scotland but was forced by storms to the coast of Norway.{{Sfn|Courtney|2024|p=114}} On hearing that the crossing had been abandoned, James sailed from [[Leith]] with a 300-strong retinue to fetch Anne personally in what historian [[David Harris Willson]] called "the one romantic episode of his life".{{Sfn|Willson|1963|p=85}}{{Efn|James heard on 7 October of the decision to postpone the crossing for winter.{{Sfn|Stewart|2003|pp=107–110}} }} The couple were married formally at the [[Old Bishop's Palace in Oslo|Bishop's Palace in Oslo]] on 23 November. James received a dowry of 75,000 [[Danish rigsdaler|Danish dalers]] and a gift of 10,000 dalers from his mother-in-law, [[Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Kerr-Peterson |first1=Miles |title=James VI's English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts, 1588–1596 |last2=Pearce |first2=Michael |date=2020 |publisher=Woodbridge |series=Scottish History Society Miscellany XVI |page=35}}</ref> After stays at [[Elsinore]] and [[Copenhagen]] and a meeting with [[Tycho Brahe]], James and Anne returned to Scotland on 1 May 1590.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stevenson |first=David |title=Scotland's Last Royal Wedding |date=1997 |publisher=John Donald |location=Edinburgh |pages=99–100}}</ref>

By all accounts, James was at first infatuated with Anne and, in the early years of their marriage, seems always to have shown her patience and affection.{{Sfn|Willson|1963|pp=85–95}} They attended the wedding celebrations of courtiers and danced in [[masque]] costume.{{Sfn|Pearce|2022|pp=108–123}} The royal couple produced three children who survived to adulthood: [[Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales]], who died of [[typhoid fever]] in 1612, aged 18; [[Elizabeth of Bohemia|Elizabeth]], later [[queen of Bohemia]]; and [[Charles I of England|Charles]], James's successor. 

Anne suffered from recurrent bouts of sickness and was seriously ill from 1617. James visited Anne only three times during her last illness. She [[death and funeral of Anne of Denmark|died before her husband]], in March 1619.{{Sfn|Croft|2003|p=101}}