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Margaret Tudor at Harbottle: A Queen Gives Birth in Exile
Margaret Tudor reached her brother's border heavily pregnant and was told to wait. The queen of Scotland could not step into England until Henry VIII said she could.
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John de la Pole and Margaret Beaufort: The Childhood Marriage She Left Out
Margaret Beaufort’s first husband was born on 27 September 1442. Seven years later, he married her. She was likely only six years old. The pope only gave his blessing afterwards.
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Margaret Tudor's Last Parting from Her Father, Collyweston, 8 July 1503
Margaret Tudor was five years old when they promised her to a king sixteen years her senior. She was thirteen, and newly motherless, when she finally left to marry him. On the eighth of July 1503 she would say goodbye to her father for the last time.
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Perkin Warbeck at Deal, 3 July 1495: The Pretender Who Never Landed
He had convinced the Holy Roman Emperor that he was the rightful King of England. He watched from his ship as the men of Kent lured his soldiers ashore with friendly words and killed them on the beach. He never set foot on English soil.
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Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk: He Outlived the Two Nieces He Helped Destroy
He sent his niece to the block in 1536. He sent another niece to the block in 1542. He survived both. Thomas Howard always did.
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Margaret Tudor: The First Tudor Daughter, Queen of Scots
Margaret Tudor was born on 28 November 1489 at Westminster Palace, the second child of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, the first daughter of the new Tudor dynasty that her father had won at the point of a sword at Bosworth Field four years earlier.