Margaret, Mary and Sophia Stuart

Sophia in a 1625 engraving by James Webster

Margaret, Mary and Sophia Stuart were three of the four daughters born to James VI & I, King of Scotland and England, and his wife, Anne of Denmark. They all died very young, which was quite common for those days, but the queen was distraught and did not have any other children after Sophia died.

Their older siblings include Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales; Elizabeth of Bohemia and Charles I.

Margaret Stuart

Margaret Stuart (24 December 1598 – March 1600) was the third child and second daughter of James I of England and his wife Anne of Denmark. She was born at Dalkeith Palace, in Edinburgh, however, she only lived for fifteen months and she died at Linlithgow Palace and was buried at Holyrood Abbey. Very little is known about her life, the least out of all of James' children, not even the exact date of her death is known, just the month. It is, however, known that she was not loved because she was a girl.

Mary Stuart

Mary Filia Jacobi Stuart^[1] (8 April 1605 – 16 September 1607), born in Greenwich Palace, was the sixth child and third daughter of James and Anne. She was the first child to be born after their third son, Robert Stuart, Duke of Kintyre who died aged 5 months of unknown causes. She was considered special by her parents. Her father was heartbroken, because Robert had been a boy, and a possible heir apparent if his older brothers died. She died aged 2½ of unknown causes. She was buried in Westminster Abbey, with a small monument designed by Maximilian Colt.

Sophia Stuart

Sophia Rosula Stuart^[1] (22 June – 23 June 1606) was the fourth daughter and seventh and final child of the King and Queen. She was born at Greenwich Palace on June 22, 1606 and died there the next day. She was included in a 1625 engraving of King James and his family by artist James Webster. She was buried at Westminster Abbey in a monument resembling a stone cradle and it was designed by Maximilian Colt.

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