Anne Stuart (daughter of Charles I)

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Template:Short description {{#invoke:Hatnote|hatnote}} Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox royalty Anne Stuart (17 March 1637Template:Spaced ndash5 November 1640)Template:Sfn was the daughter of King Charles I and his wife, Henrietta Maria of France. She was one of the couple's three children to die in childhood.

Biography

Life

File:Sir Anthony van Dyck - Princess Elizabeth, 1635 - 1650 and Princess Anne, 1637 - 1640. Daughters of Charles I - Google Art Project.jpg
Anne (right) with her sister Elizabeth in 1637, by Anthony van Dyck

Anne was born on 17 March 1637 at St. James's Palace, the sixth child and third daughter of King Charles I of England and his queen, Henrietta Maria of France.Template:Sfn Her siblings were, in order of birth: Charles James, Duke of Rothesay and Cornwall (13 May 1629); the future Charles II of England; Mary, Princess Royal and future Princess of Orange; the future James II of England and Elizabeth of England. Anne was baptised an Anglican at St. James's Palace on 30 March, by William Laud, the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>He also baptised all of her siblings.</ref> Anne only lived to see the birth of two siblings: the short lived Catherine (29 June 1639) and Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester. She died before the birth of her sister, Princess Henrietta of England, who married Philippe I, Duke of Orléans and had four children by him.Template:Citation needed

Death

Aged just three, Anne died in 1640 from the lung disease tuberculosis.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She was buried in Westminster Abbey, next to her brother Charles James.

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