The Lost Tudor Princess

by Alison Weir

First published 2015

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Margaret Douglas, daughter of Margaret Tudor and niece of Henry VIII, spent her life close to the English and Scottish successions. Secret engagements brought imprisonment, while her marriage to Matthew Stewart and promotion of her son Lord Darnley placed her at the centre of Anglo-Scottish dynastic politics. This biography follows her repeated conflicts with Tudor monarchs and her role in the ancestry of James VI and I.

Margaret’s importance lies in the way Tudor and Stuart succession politics converged in her family. Her son Darnley married Mary, Queen of Scots, and their child became James VI of Scotland and later James I of England. The biography therefore presents a woman repeatedly treated as a dynastic risk whose descendants ultimately inherited the crown she was never permitted to approach directly.

Historical Periods

Reign of Henry VIII1509–1547 CE Edwardian Reformation1547–1553 CE Mary I and the Counter-Reformation1553–1558 CE Elizabethan Age1558–1603 CE

Genres

Court & Political Fiction

Historical people

Henry VIII1491–1547 Mary I1516–1558 Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox1515–1578 Margaret Tudor1489–1541 James V1512–1542 Elizabeth I1533–1603 Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley

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