![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, it all seems to have started when she was still young: As the eldest daughter of the new Tudor dynasty much was expected of Margaret, and while she was pretty, with long red hair, intelligent and tried so very hard, she had neither the charisma or easy charm of her younger brother, Henry, or the natural grace or striking beauty of her younger sister, Mary. And yet it turns out she had big role to play in the future joint monarchy of England and Scotland and it would appear the same poor judgement in love and disastrous marriages as both her brother and her future granddaughter! I was really interested to read this history of Margaret Tudor – the eldest daughter of Henry VII, and his wife, Elizabeth of York wife of James IV of Scotland mother to James V grandmother of Mary, Queen of Scots and great-grandmother to James VI/I – because she is a figure I feel has been unfairly overlooked and obscured in the long shadow of her more infamous brother, Henry VIII. During the Nonfiction November reading event last year, I managed to read three non-fictions: The Golden Antilles by Tim Severin, Stalin: A Very Brief History by Mark Black and finally this, a history of Margaret Tudor by new-to-me author, Melanie Clegg, which was published in 2018. ![]()
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