[5] In the years before her marriage, at court in England, Anne of Denmark gave Elizabeth Schaw gifts of her old clothing including five gowns, a satin doublet, and a skirt.
[8] She returned to Scotland on leave from the household in 1613 and visited several places including Falkland Palace and stayed with her friend Marie Stewart, Countess of Mar at Alloa Tower.
The lawyer Thomas Hamilton wrote to her husband, "she hopes to take well with her natural air, and nevertheless intends to make goodly haste to you, and to come as near the term appointed by her majesty as she may ... she must give this time to her friends who are desirous to salute and welcome her to the country.
"[9] In July 1615 she was involved in an incident in court politics when Henry Gibb, a new and minor servant of the king, delivered her a scandalous letter from Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, the Lord Chamberlain, for the queen.
[12] Their son James (d. 1658), later Earl of Annandale and Viscount Stormont, was baptised in the Chapel Royal at Holyrood Palace on 19 August 1617, William Couper preached and Anne Livingstone, Countess of Eglinton, presented the child.