For a limited time only…

Without Royal Collection images, as yet… but… Here is the first episode.

‘The Story of Queen Anna of Denmark – Episode One: Waiting for a Boat’

Starring Guy Henry as King James VI of Scotland (later James I of England too!)

My research thanks for this are due to the British Library, the Institute of Historical Research, and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Imaginative scripts using the history are registered with BECTU. All rights reserved.)

Originally put out in mid-2025. Here is a bibliography for you:

Bibliography for the series:

Griffith, Eva, A Jacobean Company and Its Playhouse: the Queen’s Servants at the Red Bull Theatre, c.1605-1619 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)

McManus, Clare, Women on the Renaissance Stage: Anna of Denmark and Female Masquing in the Stuart Court (1590-1619), (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002)

Meikle, Maureen M. and Helen Payne, ‘Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004, online version https//doi.org/10.1093/ref:ODNB/559 -subscription needed, 18 pages

Meikle, Maureen M., ‘Once a Dane, Always a Dane? Queen Anna of Denmark’s Foreign Relations and Intercessions as a Queen Consort of Scotland and England, 1588-1619’, The Society for Court Studies, 2019, 168-180

Stevenson, David, Scotland’s Last Royal Wedding: the Marriage of James VI and Anne of Denmark with a Danish Account of the Marriage, translated by Peter Graves (Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1997)

Willumsen, Liverpool Helene, ‘Witchcraft Against Royal Danish Ships in 1589 and the Transnational Transfer of Ideas’ in International Review of Scottish Studies 45, 2020, 54-99

Wormald, Jenny, ‘The Witches, the Devil and the King’ in Terry Brotherstone and David Ditchburn (eds.) Freedom and Authority: Scotland c.1050-c.1650 (East Linton: Tuck well Press, 2000), pp. 165-180

Wormald, Jenny, ‘James VI and I (1566-1625)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004, online version https//doi.org/10.1093/ref:ODNB/14592 -subscription needed, 54 pages

Dr. Griffith seeking accompanying images in Scotland – during a Tempest.

One thought on “For a limited time only…

  1. I am looking forward to working on this project with Eva and adding my little bit of creative talent to the mix, initially by adding the images to accompany the audio.
    Regards Peter

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