He was going to Alloa Tower with James VI and Anne of Denmark to the "infare" wedding celebrations of the Earl of Mar and Marie Stewart, a sister of the Duke of Lennox.
[3] James VI had invested 54,000 dalers from Anna of Denmark's dowry in various Scottish towns, and in July 1594 Elphinstone was authorised to collect £4,000 Scots from St Andrews and Anstruther for the clothing of her household, "the apparrelling of hir laydis, madynnis of honnour, gentilwemen, and serving wemen."
[4] Elphinstone was described by James VI as a "servitor to our dearest bedfellow the queen", a servant of Anna of Denmark, in March 1595, and received £1000 Scots as payment for his service to date in September 1599.
[8] Elphinstone may have recently met the Countess at Worksop Manor in June when Anne of Denmark travelled from Scotland to London.
[12] On 7 May 1613 Gervase Helwys, the newly appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London was instructed to allow Elphinstone to visit Arbella Stuart and speak to her in private.
[13] The previous Lieutenant, William Wade had been dismissed after his daughter helped Arbella Stuart make a wax impression to obtain a duplicate key.
[17] In May 1609, following the conviction of his brother Lord Balmerino for treason,[18] Elphinstone petitioned Anne of Denmark for payment, having received no fees for 15 years.
Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford wrote to her friend Jane Cornwallis that he died "on Tuesday last, to the great grief of all good dancers".
He left a gold chain with a miniature portrait of Christian IV with a diamond ring, which the Danish king had given him, to be added to the posterity of the house of Elphinstone.
[21] In Scotland Elphinstone was regarded as intestate, and his executors made a list of property incomes due to him for lands in the parish of Leuchars.