Margaret Tudor,1489–1541, queen consort ofJames IVof Scotland; daughter of Henry VII of England and sister of Henry VIII. Her marriage (1503) to James was accompanied by a treaty of “perpetual peace” between Scotland and England, a peace that was ended when James invaded England in 1513...
Catalina noticed that the Scots envoys were much in attendance, negotiating the marriage of her new sister-in-law, Princess Margaret. King Henry was using his children as pawns in his game for power, as every king must do. Arthur had made the vital link with Spain, Margaret, though only ...
Margaret, the fun-loving, hard-playing sister of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, died on Saturday at 71 after the latest in a line of strokes. The queen announced the death of her younger sister “with great sadness” in a statement pinned up for all to see at Buckingham Palace, where the U...
What creates the most curiosity in regards to Henry VIII’s Will and Edward’s attempts to alter it, is the tendency for both of them to disregard Henry’s elder sister Margaret Tudor and her progeny. We will never really know their reasons for this omission. But what is interesting is t...
As the first wife of Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon has often been portrayed as a pious and ultimately tragic figure whose reign has been overshadowed by her inability to bear a male heir. Margaret Tudor, Henry VIII's sister and queen of James IV, has had her reign continually cast in ...
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Queen Elizabeth II's younger sister, Princess Margaret, had an independent streak that couldn't be squelched by tradition—but nor could it overcome certain royal rules.
About 1491 Henry VII gave her in marriage to Sir Richard Pole, whose mother was the half-sister of the king’s mother, Margaret Beaufort. At her husband’s death in 1505 Margaret was left with five children, of whom the fourth, Reginald, was to become cardinal and Archbishop of ...
Princess Margaret. Self: Jamaican Independence. Princess Margaret was born on 21 August 1930 in Glamis Castle, Glamis, Tayside, Scotland, UK. She was married to Antony Armstrong-Jones Snowdon. She died on 9 February 2002 in King Edward VII's Hospital Sis
The younger sister ofQueen Elizabeth II, Margaret (1930-2002) had established herself as the royal family’s ‘wild child’. She was an enthusiastic party princess – drinking a vodka and orange juice pick-me-up upon her noon awakening, wine at lunch, and guzzling Famous Grouse scotch all ...