Margaret Tudor

Clegg, Melanie2018

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When the 13-year-old Margaret Tudor, eldest daughter of Henry VII and his wife Elizabeth of York, married King James IV of Scotland in a magnificent proxy ceremony held at Richmond Palace in January 1503, no one could have guessed that this pretty, redheaded princess would go on to have a marital career as dramatic and chequered as that of her younger brother Henry VIII. Left widowed at the age of just 23 after her husband was killed by her brother's army at the battle of Flodden, Margaret was made Regent for her young son and was the most powerful woman in Scotland - until she fell in love with the wrong man, lost everything and was forced to flee the country. Margaret hurtled from one disaster to the next and ended her life abandoned by virtually everyone: a victim both of her own poor life choices and of the simmering hostility between her son, James V and her brother, Henry VIII. This is Margaret's story.