Married Life
Anne's stepfather, Thomas Howard, eventually obtained the wardship of all the Dacre children. He arranged that George (Francis) was to marry Margaret, the daughter of his second wife. The three Dacre girls were arranged to marry Thomas’s three sons: Philip, Thomas, and William.
In 1569, Anne was arranged to marry Thomas’s eldest son. At age 12, Anne married her stepbrother, Philip Howard, the Earl of Surrey, the Duke’s oldest son and heir. Since both children were only 12 years old at the time, the ceremony was repeated two years later when both the parties reached the age of consent. Philip eventually became the 20th Earl of Arundel. Anne’s sister, Elizabeth, married Lord William Howard. Her other sister, Mary, was arranged to marry Lord Thomas Howard, but died before she was “marriageable”.
Initially, Anne and Philip were not very fond of one another. They saw little of each other in the beginning of their marriage, but they eventually learned to love and appreciate their relationship. Following the death of Philip's maternal grandfather, Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel, on February 24, 1580, Anne became the Countess of Arundel. Anne gave birth to their two (2) children, Elizabeth Howard and Thomas Howard.
Throughout the beginning of their marriage, Anne and Philip moved continually. They moved from “Audley End to Arundel House, London, to Nonsuch, with occasional visits to the Charterhouse, then known as Howard House”. The constant moving occurred for many years until the early 1580s, where they finally settled in Arundel Castle in Sussex where Anne and Philip decided to convert to Catholicism.
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