Blanche Swansted

In April 1603 he ordered that some of Elizabeth's jewels, and a hairdresser, Blanche Swansted, should be sent to Berwick-upon-Tweed so that Anne of Denmark would appear like an English queen as she crossed the border.

James reiterated this request, explaining the jewels were to be selected by Elizabeth's household attendants for Anne's "ordinary apparelling and ornament".

Swansted's petition for payment explains that she had travelled north to meet the new queen and joined her service as "tirewoman in ordinary".

[3] Anne of Denmark appointed a Scottish "attire-maker" James Taylor, confirmed by privy seal letter on 17 May 1603 in Edinburgh.

[4] A young Scottish woman in Princess Elizabeth's household in England, probably Anne Livingstone, kept an account book.