Old travel Blog photograph of the Duchess Of Hamilton drawing room in Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland. Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton, born 6 January 1631, died 17 October 1716, was a Scottish peeress. She was born at the Palace of Whitehall in London, England, where her mother was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Henrietta Maria of France, wife of King Charles I of Scotland and of England. Through paternal descent, Anne had a claim to the throne of Scotland, although this was dependent upon the failure of the House of Stewart. She was descended from James II through the marriage of the 1st Lord Hamilton to James's daughter Mary. Her great great grandfather, the 2nd Earl of Arran, had been heir presumptive from the death of Regent Albany until the birth of James VI, and had served as Regent of Scotland during the childhood and absence in France of Mary, Queen of Scots. She was married in 1656, at the kirk of Corstorphine near Edinburgh, to William Douglas, 1st Earl of Selkirk, a younger son of William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas. Selkirk was created Duke of Hamilton for his lifetime, included the subsidiary titles pertaining to the Dukedom de jure uxoris, and in 1660 he assumed the surname Douglas-Hamilton. Between 1657 and 1673, the couple produced 13 children. She died on 17 October 1716.
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