At age ten, Anne was engaged to King Louis XIII of France. Her father gave her a dowry of 500,000 crowns and many beautiful jewels.
Louis XIII was perceived of poor health and so her father ensured that she would she would return to Spain with her dowry, jewels, and wardrobe if he died.
The pair had a difficult life, and suffered from devastating child loss 4 times before Anne gave birth to two heirs of France after 23 years of marriage. The king and Queen never really got on and had many scandals throughout their marriage, he even banned her from regency to her son in his will.
Anne stepped down from politics after her husband died and her son had a new queen, she retired to the convent of Val-de-Grâce, where she died of breast cancer five years later. The treatment for breast cancer was painfully brutal, slow and agonising.
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