Wilton House
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Wilton House is an English country house at Wilton near Salisbury in Wiltshire, which has been the country seat of the Earls of Pembroke for over 400 years. It was built on the site of the medieval Wilton Abbey. Following the dissolution of the monasteries, Henry VIII presented Wilton Abbey and its attached estates to William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke. The house is linked by some with the premiere of Shakespeare's As You Like It, and an important literary saloon culture under its occupation by Mary Sidney, wife of the first Earl.
The east front, the entrance front until 1801, contains at its centre all that remains of the exterior of the original Tudor mansion
The south front of Wilton House
First page of As You Like It from the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, the first performance of the play may have been at Wilton: an out put Mary Sidney's litterary saloon culture at the house
Mary Sidney ran important literary activities from Wilton House in the 16th century
Anne of Denmark
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Anne of Denmark was the wife of King James VI and I. She was Queen of Scotland from their marriage on 20 August 1589 and Queen of England and Ireland from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until her death in 1619.
James VI in 1586, aged twenty, three years before his marriage to Anne. Falkland Palace, Fife.
1589 marriage contract between Anne of Denmark and James VI, Danish National Archives
Anne of Denmark as Queen of Scotland, 1595, by Adrian Vanson