Mary Stuart (1605%E2%80%931607)

Mary of England, Scotland and Ireland was the third daughter and sixth child of James VI and I, the first king of a unified England, Scotland and Ireland, by Anne of Denmark, daughter of Frederick II of Denmark and sister of Christian IV of Denmark her birth was much anticipated. She developed pneumonia atmonths and died the following year.

The first child to be born to Anne and James after James succeeded Elizabeth I of England, Mary was the first princess of Great Britain, although then it was not so named. Her birth was thus awaited with much excitement among both the Scottish and the English. Disputes among nobility as to the distribution of places in the establishment for the unborn child were very common. A note containing the necessaries ordered by the king for his child contains orders of the following a carnation velvet cradle, fringed with silver fringe and lined with carnation satin a double scarlet cloth to lay upon the cradle at night a cradle cloth of carnation velvet with a train, laid with silver, and lined with taffeta to lay upon the cradle two small mantles of unshorn velvet, lined with the same velvet one large bearing cloth of carnation velvet, to be used when the child is brought forth of the chamber, lined with taffeta one great head sheet of cambric for the cradle, containing two breadths, and thre

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