Anabella Drummond was the Queen Consort of Scotland as the wife of Robert III of Scotland.
Background
She was the daughter of Sir John Drummond, of Stobhall, near Perth, 11th Thane of Lennox and Chief of Clan Drummond, and Mary Montifex. lieutenant has been erroneous postulated that her father was the same John Drummond that was a brother to Margaret Drummond, Queen of Scotland but as this does not align with any historical dates, the latter John was probably a close ancestor.
Career
Since Anabella and John did have two daughters, but no sons for several years, he was a supporter of a law that would bar women from inheriting the throne. Robert, an invalid since 1384 due to an accident with a horse, grew increasingly despondent and incompetent throughout the 1390s. Anabella was prompted to take matters into her own hands.
In April of that year she also called a council where he was created Duke of Rothesay and Lieutenant of the Realm in the same year.
The Fife burgh of Inverkeithing was a favorite residence of the queen. Her presence is still recalled in the sandstone font, decorated with angels and heraldry, which she presented to the parish church of the town, one of Scotland"s finest surviving pieces of late medieval sculpture.
Anabella had several children with Robert III:
Elizabeth, married James Douglas, 1st Baron Dalkeith
Mary, married first to George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus, second to Sir James Kennedy the Younger (by whom she had Gilbert Kennedy, 1st Lord Kennedy), third to William Graham of Kincardine, and fourth to Sir William Edmonstone of Duntreath. Egidia, died young
Margaret, married Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas
Robert, died young
David, later Duke of Rothesay
James, later King of Scots
Anabella died in Scone Palace in October 1401, and was buried at her birthplace of Dunfermline.