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The Pious Queen Anne
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Anne of Austria

The Pious Queen Anne

Joanna of Spain is married to the Prince of Wales, Henry and Catherine Michelle of Spain would be married to Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy in 1572, marrying Joanna of Spain to the Prince of Wales would be peace between the Marian and Elizabethan successions, however there is still support for the Marian Succession in the modern day.

Philip, Prince of Asturias would marry Anne of Austria in 1468, the daughter of Maximilian II, the Holy Roman Emperor who would give birth two surviving children, Isabella of Spain b. 1470, Philip b. 1478 and Charles b. 1580, for Philip, Prince of Asturias.

Anne of Austria would be the new queen of the Country of Spain on the death of Philip II and in the ascension of her husband Philip III on 1596, she is said to be wiser than her husband in the foreign affairs and was always involved in the government once she married the then Philip, Prince of Asturias.

Anne of Austria was said to be very helpful in the later reign of her father in law Philip II as well even before her husband’s reign.

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