Queen Anna plays arts-and-crafts with English state treasure.

>[Anna](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Anne_of_Denmark-1605.jpg) was determined that her masque was to be still more dramatic and [Harington](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Sir_John_Harington_%281561-1612%29.png) learned that she had given Lady Suffolk and Lady Walsingham warrants to take [Elizabeth](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Darnley_stage_3.jpg)’s best apparel out of the Tower to be cut up and rearranged as costumes. She was clearly unconcerned that they were regarded as state treasure or that they held something of the iconic status of the queen who had once worn them. >She had her own costume cut to the knee, prompting [Dudley Carleton](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Dudley_Carleton%2C_Viscount_Dorchester_by_Michiel_Jansz._van_Miereveldt.jpg) to joke that she must have done so in order that “we might see a woman had both feet and legs which I never knew before.” ________________________________ **Source:** Lisle, Leanda De. "The God of Truth and Time." *After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England*. New York: Ballantine, 2005. 280. Print. ________________________________ **Further Reading:** [Anna of Denmark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Denmark) [John Harington, 1st Baron Harington of Exton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harington,_1st_Baron_Harington_of_Exton) [Elizabeth I of England / The Virgin Queen / Gloriana / Good Queen Bess](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England) [Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Carleton,_1st_Viscount_Dorchester)