Princess Anne of Denmark

Princess Anne of Denmark (4 December 1917 – 26 September 1980) was the mother of royal photographer Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, and a cousin of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

Family

She was born Anne Ferelith Fenella Bowes-Lyon in Washington, D.C. in 1917. Her father was Hon. John Herbert Bowes-Lyon and her mother was née the Hon. Fenella Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, daughter of The 21st Baron Clinton. Her paternal grandfather was The 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, father of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the future Queen Elizabeth, then The Queen Mother.

Marriages

• On 28 April 1938, Anne married Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas William Arnold Anson, Viscount Anson (1913–1958), the eldest son and heir apparent of Thomas Edward Anson, 4th Earl of Lichfield (1883–1960). As her husband held the courtesy title of Viscount Anson, Anne was styled Viscountess Anson upon their marriage. They had two children:
• Patrick John Anson (25 April 1939 – 11 November 2005), who later succeeded his grandfather as the 5th Earl of Lichfield;
• The Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Anson (b. 7 June 1941), married Sir Geoffrey Adam Shakerley, 6th Baronet.

• Anne and Viscount Anson were divorced in 1948 and 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...... ...
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