Review 'Anna of Denmark -Queen in Two Kingdoms'
Biography by Scottish academic and historical fiction writer Steven Veerapen A biography of Anna, princess of Denmark, queen of Scotland, and also queen of England and Ireland from 1603, is most welcome. Published in 2022 by Peter Lang .Steven Veerapen is a lecturer at the University of Strathclyde who has written a series of historical novels set during the Tudor period. Amongst Mr Veerapen's non-fiction work are 'Blood Feud -Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Moray' and 'Elizabeth and Essex, Power, Passion and Politics'. Cultural historians have emphasised Anna's patronage and participation in Court masques, particularly in relation to the works of Ben Jonson's such Masque of Beauty and Masque of Queens . This is all acknowledged, along with a section on Anna and Ben Jonson's collaboration in organising an 'antimasque'- 'an unnatural and inelegant dance', in which participants depict witches in hell. This aut