Entry and coronation of Anne of Denmark

On 17 May 1590, Anne of Denmark was crowned Queen of Scotland.^[1] There was also a ceremony of joyous entry into Edinburgh on 19 May, an opportunity for spectacle and theatre and allegorical tableaux promoting civic and national identities, similar in many respects to those performed in many other European towns.^[2] Celebrations for the arrival of Anne of Denmark in Scotland had been planned and prepared for September 1589, when it was expected she would sail from Denmark with the admirals Peder Munk and Henrik Gyldenstierne. She was delayed by accidents and poor weather and James VI of Scotland joined her in Norway in November.^[3] They returned to Scotland in May 1590.^[4]

^ Maureen Meikle, 'Anna of Denmark's Coronation and Entry', Julian Goodare & Alasdair A. MacDonald, Sixteenth-Century Scotland (Brill, 2008), pp. 277–294.
^ Caterina Pagnini, 'Luci sullo spettacolo di corte tra i mari del Nord: Anna di Danimarca da Copenaghen al trono di Scozia (1574–1590)', Il Castello de Elsinore, 78, (2018), pp. 11–28: G. Guidicini, 'Scottishness on Stage: Creating and Performing Scotland's National Identity during Triumphal Entries in the XVI and XVII Centuries', in J. Campbell, E. Ewan, and H. Parker, The Shaping of Scottish Identities: Family, Nation, and the World Beyond, (Guelph Series in Scottish Studies, II, 2011): Robert Chambers, Domestic Annals of Scotland, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1848), pp. 197–201.
^ Daniel Wilson, Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1891), pp. 113–115.
^ Lucinda Dean, 'Enter the Alien: Foreign Consorts and their Royal Entries into Scottish Cities', in J.R. Mulryne, Maria Ines Aliverti, Anna Maria Testaverde, Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe: The Iconography of Power (Abingdon, 2015), pp. 269–275: Martin Wiggins & Catherine Richardson, British Drama 1533–1642, A Catalogue: 1590–1597, vol. 3 (Oxford, 2013), pp. 27–30.

[1] Maureen Meikle, 'Anna of Denmark's Coronation and Entry', Julian Goodare & Alasdair A. MacDonald, Sixteenth-Century Scotland (Brill, 2008), pp. 277–294.

[2] Caterina Pagnini, 'Luci sullo spettacolo di corte tra i mari del Nord: Anna di Danimarca da Copenaghen al trono di Scozia (1574–1590)', Il Castello de Elsinore, 78, (2018), pp. 11–28: G. Guidicini, 'Scottishness on Stage: Creating and Performing Scotland's National Identity during Triumphal Entries in the XVI and XVII Centuries', in J. Campbell, E. Ewan, and H. Parker, The Shaping of Scottish Identities: Family, Nation, and the World Beyond, (Guelph Series in Scottish Studies, II, 2011): Robert Chambers, Domestic Annals of Scotland, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1848), pp. 197–201.

[3] Daniel Wilson, Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1891), pp. 113–115.

[4] Lucinda Dean, 'Enter the Alien: Foreign Consorts and their Royal Entries into Scottish Cities', in J.R. Mulryne, Maria Ines Aliverti, Anna Maria Testaverde, Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe: The Iconography of Power (Abingdon, 2015), pp. 269–275: Martin Wiggins & Catherine Richardson, British Drama 1533–1642, A Catalogue: 1590–1597, vol. 3 (Oxford, 2013), pp. 27–30.

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