Margaret Tudor’s Flight: The 1515 Escape that Led to a United Crown

On 30 September 1515, Margaret Tudor, Henry VIII’s elder sister and widow of James IV, slipped across the Scottish border into England: heavily pregnant, newly remarried, and out of power. Her dash to Harbottle Castle set up a birth with huge consequences: Lady Margaret Douglas, whose line would help unite the Tudor and Stuart claims.In this episode I set the scene:
The glittering 1503 marriage to James IV and the Flodden aftermath
How Margaret lost the regency by marrying for love: Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus
Duke of Albany takes control, and the royal children
The 1515 flight to Harbottle and the birth (8 Oct) of Lady Margaret Douglas
Why Henry VIII offered hospitality, not armies
Margaret’s return in 1517, and how her daughter’s marriage to Matthew Stewart, Earl of Lennox produced Lord Darnley, and, in the next generation, James VI & I, uniting the crowns in 1603
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October 18 - Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland

On this day in Tudor history, 18th October 1541, Margaret Tudor, sister of King Henry VIII and eldest daughter of King Henry VII, died of a stroke at Methven Castle, Perthshire, Scotland. She was laid to rest at the Carthusian Priory of St John in Perth, which was later destroyed.
 
Margaret Tudor is a fascinating Tudor lady. She was sent to Scotland at 13 to marry King James IV, she was widowed, divorced and unhappily married, she fled to England at one point, and she was the mother of Lady Margaret Douglas, grandmother of Mary, Queen of Scots AND Lord Darnley, and great-grandmother of King James VI of Scotland (King James I of England). What a life she had!
 
Find out all about Margaret Tudor in today's talk from Claire Ridgway, author of "On This Day in Tudor History".
 
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