Margaret Tudor: life of the week

Hello and welcome to Life of the Week, where leading historians delve into the lives of some of history's most intriguing and significant figures, from ancient Egyptian pharaohs and medieval warriors to daring 20th century spies. Margaret Tudor was the daughter of a king. The sister of a king and the wife of a king, but she was a political power player in her own right too, carefully balancing family loyalties to both the Crown of England and the Crown of Scotland. She also left us an extraordinary legacy of correspondence detailing her life as a princess, queen, regent, and mother. I spoke to historical linguist Dr.

Helen Newsom Chandler to find out more about Margaret's life from start to end. We're going to be delving into the life of Margaret Tudor. Could you introduce us to her? So Margaret Tudor was the eldest daughter of Henry VII and Elizabeth York, King and Queen of England. She was

Born on the 28th of November 1489 at Westminster Palace. And when she was 13 years old, she married James IV, King of Scots, to become Queen of Scotland. And what's interesting about it is we have an unusually large collection of correspondence that charts Margaret's life from her shortly after her arrival in Scotland until just before her death in 1541. And this correspondence offers such an interesting insight into the challenges she faced as Queen of Scots, especially after her husband James IV was. Killed at the Battle of Floden in 1513.

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