Margaret tudor death

Margaret Tudor’s life was in many respects as contrary and tempestuous as that of her granddaughter, Mary queen of Scots.

Certainly the parallels between their second marriages are the most obvious and entertaining.

Margaret tudor family tree

Margaret tudor family tree

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Henry viii sister margaret died of consumption

How did margaret tudor die

Both women married handsome younger earls with powerful fathers who embroiled them in conflict with the notoriously fractious Scottish lords and the English monarch. And though both women married those earls for love, without regard for any effect upon their rule and reputation, they came to bitterly regret their hasty decisions.

They also entered Scotland as foreigners who found their new home backward and unsettling.

Margaret was the eldest daughter of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, born on 28 November 1489 at the Palace of Westminster, a year and a half before her famous brother, Henry VIII. The elaborate and costly preparations for her birth were recorded by contempo