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Chap. XVIII.
MARRIAGE OF JAMES VI.
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Frederic and Lord Willoughby hit off matters
admirably,* and appear to have become great friends.
In 1583 he sends the king as a present the portrait
of Queen Elizabeth,! together with several English
pointers, a hunter, and other trifles. In a letter to
Frederic, 7th October, 1587, Lord Willoughby tells
how in hard fighting in Holland, without other weapon
than a sword the king had given him, he met with
a Spanish captain of cavalry, who, though armed
with spear and sword, gave himself up as prisoner;
but he broke on this occasion the point of his sword,
and a blackish horse, which Frederic had frequently
mounted himself and presented to Lord W illoughby, was
shot in the battle.
In 1588 was celebrated in the castle of Kronborg
the marriage by procuration of King James VI. of
Scotland with Anne, daughter of King Frederic II.
of Denmark. Anne was then in her fifteenth year.
Marshal Earl Keith acted as proxy. This marriage
settled the vexed question of the Orkney and Shetland
Islands, pawned to Scotland when the Princess Margaret
married King James III. Christian III. meditated an ex-
* He is said to have returned to Denmark several times on various
missions (1584, 1585).
t Concerning the subsequent fate of this portrait we have no accurate
information ; but in the gallery of Frederiksborg there hangs a
well-painted portrait of a lady, which bears her name. She is dressed in the
Spanish costume of the century, a black figured velvet. The hair or
wig is of a reddish hue, and studded over with pearl pins,—her age may
be from forty to fifty,—and round her neck hangs a fine string of pendent
pearls, answering much to the description of that so meanly purchased
for one fifth of its value from her cousin Queen Mary. This picture
differs from those we generally meet with of Queen Elizabeth, and is
far more flattering in consequence of the shadows being put in by
the artist, who is supposed to be Jonas van Cleves.
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