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KRONBORG.
Chap. XVIII.
pedition against Mary of Guise, then Regent of Scotland,
for their recovery, and later offered to repay the 50,000
florins for which they had been pawned; but Dantzay,
by order of Catherine de Medicis, put a spoke into the
arrangement, and they were never redeemed. We all
know the history of King James’s adventures, and how the
real marriage took place at Agershuus, in Norway. The
royal couple then visited Denmark and passed a month in
the castle of Kronborg, where they assisted at the nuptials,
19th April, 1590, of the queen’s elder sister, the Princess
Elizabeth, with Henry Duke of Brunswick. Which were
the apartments occupied by King James and his bride
during his residence no one can say — the interior
of the building has been much altered since that
period, the stories divided for the occupation of the
garrison—but in all probability it was the suite called
the apartments of Christian IV., now set apart for his
present Majesty. They are not remarkable for their
size, but contain fine chimney-pieces, with the cipher of
the sovereign, and the doorwqys are ornamented with
marble and richly-carved ebony. Tales are still current
in Elsinore of the drinking bouts held by King James and
his brother-in-law Prince Christian in the halls of
Kronborg—how they fell intoxicated under the table, rolled
into the ditch, &c.
On the exterior of the castle, called Frederic III.’s
battery, under the windows of the upper story, runs a
cornice richly ornamented in the style of the earlier part
of the seventeenth century, in the divisions of which
are represented medallion portraits of certain
personages of the royal family of Denmark. Among them that
of King James himself, with his peaked beard, side by
side with the full features of his consort Queen Anne :
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