Margaret Tudor: Henry VIII's Forgotten Sister: Crown, Marriage and Survival in Scotland

Margaret Tudor was born a Tudor princess, became Queen of Scots at thirteen, and found herself at the centre of one of the most turbulent periods in the history of England and Scotland.

Her marriage to James IV was intended to secure peace between two rival kingdoms. A decade later, the Battle of Flodden left her a twenty-three-year-old widow, mother of an infant king and regent of a divided realm. What followed was a remarkable struggle for power, family and survival.

Margaret's secret marriage to Archibald Douglas cost her the regency. She fought for control of her son James V, fled Scotland while pregnant, returned from exile, sought freedom from a disastrous marriage and repeatedly navigated the competing ambitions of England, France and Scotland's most powerful noble families.

Drawing on surviving correspondence, diplomatic records and modern scholarship, Margaret Tudor: Henry VIII's Forgotten Sister restores a queen too often reduced to a footnote in her brother's reign. Her choices could be courageous, impulsive and politically costly, but her persistence was extraordinary.

And through her descendants, Margaret Tudor ultimately provided the dynastic path that brought the crowns of England and Scotland together in 1603.