James VI sailed personally to Denmark in October 1589 to collect his bride Anne of Denmark after storms prevented her reaching Scotland. The voyage involved a Scottish fleet and was itself a military-logistical operation in dangerous autumn North Sea conditions. James overwintered in Denmark and returned with his new queen in May 1590 — the first Scottish king to leave Scotland for over a century. The return voyage through the Orkneys was accompanied by violent storms that contemporaries attributed to witchcraft — leading directly to the North Berwick witch trials and Bothwell's indictment for raising storms against the king.
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