| Princess Anne | |
| Viscountess Anson | |
| Spouse: | |
| Issue: | Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield Lady Elizabeth Shakerley |
| House: | Bowes-Lyon |
| Birth Name: | Anne Ferelith Fenella Bowes-Lyon |
| Birth Date: | 4 December 1917 |
| Birth Place: | Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Death Place: | London, England |
| Father: | John Bowes-Lyon |
| Mother: | Fenella Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis |
Princess Anne of Denmark (née Anne Ferelith Fenella Bowes-Lyon; 4 December 1917 - 26 September 1980), formerly styled as Viscountess Anson, was a member of the Danish royal family by marriage and a first cousin of Elizabeth II.
Born into the Bowes-Lyon family, she married Thomas Anson, Viscount Anson, and had two children, Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, and Lady Elizabeth Shakerley, before divorcing Anson in 1948. She became a princess of Denmark by her second marriage to Prince Georg of Denmark in 1950.
Anne Bowes-Lyon was born in Washington, D.C., in 1917.[1] [2] Her father was the Hon. John Herbert Bowes-Lyon and her mother was the Hon. Fenella Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, daughter of Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton. Anne's paternal grandfather was Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. She was a niece of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Anne had three younger sisters, two of whom were Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, who were institutionalized in 1941 for severe intellectual disability.
Anne married Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas William Arnold Anson (1913–1958) on 28 April 1938.[3] As her husband held the courtesy title of Viscount Anson, Anne was styled Viscountess Anson upon their marriage. They were divorced in 1948. They had two children, four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren:
On 16 September 1950, at Glamis Castle,[4] [5] Anne, Viscountess Anson subsequently married Prince Georg of Denmark, upon which she became Her Highness Princess Anne of Denmark.
Anne died in 1980, aged 62, in London of a heart attack.[6]
1917 - 1938: Ms. Anne Bowes-Lyon
1938 - 1948: Vicountess Anson
1948 - 1950: Anne, Vicountess Anson
1950 - 1980: Her Highness Princess Anne of Denmark