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Anne Stuart (daughter of Charles I)

Anne Stuart
Princess Anne in c. 1639.
Born	17 March 1637 St. James's Palace, London
Died	5 November 1640(1640-11-05) (aged 3) Richmond Palace, London[1]
Burial	8 December 1640[a] Westminster Abbey, London
House	Stuart
Father	Charles I
Mother	Henrietta Maria of France

Anne Stuart (17 March 1637 – 5 November 1640)^[1] was the daughter of King Charles I and his wife, Henrietta Maria of France. She was one of the couple's three children to die in childhood.

Anne was born on 17 March 1637 at St. James's Palace, the sixth child and third daughter of King Charles I of England and his queen, Henrietta Maria of France.^[1] Her siblings were, in order of birth: Charles James, Duke of Rothesay and Cornwall (13 May 1629); the future Charles II of England; Mary, Princess Royal and future Princess of Orange; the future James II of England and Elizabeth of England. Anne was baptised an AnglicanatSt. James's Palace on 30 March, by William Laud, the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury.^[2][3] Anne only lived to see the birth of two siblings: the short lived Catherine (29 June 1639) and Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester. She died before the birth of her sister, Princess Henrietta of England, who married Philippe I, Duke of Orléans and had four children by him.^{[citation needed]}

Aged just three, Anne died in 1640 from the lung disease tuberculosis.^[4] She was buried in Westminster Abbey, next to her brother Charles James.

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