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HomeMargaret Douglas

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Margaret Douglas

Margaret Douglas – The legacy of Royal Tudor blood (Part three)

Sunday, 5 April 2020, 0:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part two here. In early 1557, Margaret lost the father she had not seen for at least three years. He left Margaret nothing in his will, and the title passed to his nephew David. Margaret, however, maintained that she was her father’s heir and from now on signed her name as “Margaret Lennox and [read more]

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Margaret Douglas – The legacy of Royal Tudor blood (Part two)

Saturday, 4 April 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 1

Read part one here. By the late 1530s, Margaret was back in London and a frequent guest of Anne Stanhope, Lady Hertford, who was the wife of Jane Seymour’s brother Edward. With Jane now dead and a new Queen soon arriving in England, the Queen’s household needed to be reestablished. In November 1539, Margaret was [read more]

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Margaret Douglas – The legacy of Royal Tudor blood (Part one)

Friday, 3 April 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

On 7 October 1515 Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots, gave birth to her seventh child, though the first (and as it would turn out only) child by her second marriage to Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus. She had previously been married to King James IV of Scotland, but he had died at the Battle [read more]

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Queens Regent – Margaret Tudor

Monday, 9 January 2017, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0

A regent is “a person appointed to administer a state because the monarch is a minor, is absent or is incapacitated.” Margaret Tudor was born on 28 November 1489 as the eldest daughter of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York. Early in her life, her future marriage was already being discussed. On 24 January [read more]

Book Reviews

The Lost Tudor Princess By Alison Weir Book Review

Friday, 22 July 2016, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Her mother was a queen, her father an earl, and she herself was the granddaughter, niece, cousin, and grandmother of monarchs. Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, was an important figure in Tudor England, yet today, while her contemporaries—Anne Boleyn, Mary, Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I—have achieved celebrity [read more]

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The Other Tudor Princess by Mary McGrigor Book Review

Friday, 6 May 2016, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0

The first history of Henry VIII’s beloved niece and one-time heir to the throne, whose life spanned the reign of four Tudor monarchs   This forgotten part of Tudor history is told here for the first time with all the passion and thrill of a novel, but this is no fiction—Henry VIII really did almost [read more]

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