Princess Anne of Denmark
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Princess Anne of Denmark (4 December 1917–26 September 1980) was the mother of royal photographer, Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield and cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.
Born Anne Ferelith Fenella Bowes-Lyon in Washington D.C. in 1917, she was the daughter of Hon. John Herbert Bowes-Lyon (a son of the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and a brother of the future Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) and his wife, Fenella (a daughter of the 21st Baron Clinton).
On 28 April 1938, Anne married Thomas Anson, a son of the 4th Earl of Lichfield. Thomas held the courtesy title of Viscount Anson and Anne was styled Viscountess Anson upon her marriage and they had two children:
- (Thomas) Patrick John Anson (25 April 1939–11 November 2005), later the 5th Earl of Lichfield.
- Elizabeth Georgiana Anson (b. 7 June 1941), married Sir Geoffrey Shakerley, 6th Bt.
Anne and Thomas were divorced in 1948 and she subsequently married Prince George Waldemar of Denmark, a great-grandson of Christian IX of Denmark, on 16 September 1950 at Glamis Castle and became Princess Anne of Denmark. Anne died in 1980, aged 62, in London.
