Anne Bowes-Lyon

Anne
Princess Anne of Denmark Viscountess Anson
Anne at the wedding of Princess Ragnhild of Norway, 15 May 1953
Born	Anne Ferelith Fenella Bowes-Lyon (1917-12-04)4 December 1917 Washington, D.C., U.S.
Died	26 September 1980(1980-09-26) (aged 62) London, England
Spouse	Thomas Anson, Viscount Anson ​ ​ (m. 1938; div. 1948)​ Prince Georg of Denmark ​ ​ (m. 1950)​
Bowes-Lyon
Father	John Bowes-Lyon
Mother	Fenella Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis

Anne Ferelith Fenella Bowes-Lyon (4 December 1917 – 26 September 1980) 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.

Family

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 had three younger sisters, two of whom were Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, who were institutionalized from 1941 for severe intellectual disability.

Anne's paternal grandfather was Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, father of her aunt Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, who was born Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.

Marriages

Anne married Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas William Arnold Anson (1913–1958) on 28 April 1938.

, Anne was styled Viscountess Anson upon their marriage. They were divorced in 1948. They had two children, four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren:

• (Thomas) Patrick John Anson (25 April 1939 – 11 November 2005), who later succeeded his grandfather as the 5th Earl of Lichfield. He married Lady Leonora Grosvenor, daughter of the Duke of Westminster, on 8 March 1975 and they were divorced circa 1986. They had three children and four grandchildren.
• Baronet
  on 27 July 1972 and they were divorced in 2009. They had one daughter and two 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]

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