When the thirteen year old Margaret Tudor, eldest daughter of Henry VII and his wife Elizabeth of York, married King James IV of Scotland in a magnificent proxy ceremony held at Richmond Palace in January 1503, no one could have guessed that this pretty, redheaded princess would go on to have a marital career as dramatic and chequered as that of her younger brother Henry VIII.Left widowed at the age of just twenty three after her husband was killed by her brother’s army at the battle of Flodden, Margaret was made Regent for her young son and was temporarily the most powerful woman in Scotland - until she fell in love with the wrong man, lost everything and was forced to flee the country. In a life that foreshadowed that of her tragic, fascinating granddaughter Mary Queen of Scots, Margaret hurtled from one disaster to the next and ended her life abandoned by virtually everyone: a victim both of her own poor life choices and of the simmering hostility between her son, James V and her brother, Henry VIII.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1 The Rise of the Tudors 1485–1489
• Chapter 2 A Royal Childhood 1489–1497
• Chapter 3 The Scottish Alliance 1496–1498
• Chapter 4 Wedding Bells 1499–1502
• Chapter 5 The Worst of Times 1502–1503
• Chapter 6 Farewells 1503
• Chapter 7 Meetings 1503
• Chapter 8 Queen of Scots 1503–1504
• Chapter 9 The Little Queen 1504–1509
• Plate Section
• Chapter 10 The Auld Alliance 1509–1513
• Chapter 11 The Flowers of Scotland 1513–1514
• Chapter 12 A Struggle for Power 1514–1515
• Chapter 13 A Homecoming 1515–1517
• Chapter 14 A Poor Suitor 1517–1523
• Chapter 15 Beset on all Sides 1523–1529
• Chapter 16 The Final Chapter 1529–1541
• Bibliography