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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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Mary of Guise and Her Son François: A Childhood Followed by Letter
Her son's clothes no longer fitted him. His grandmother wrote to tell her. She had gone to Scotland to marry a king. Her little boy had stayed in France.
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Madeleine de Valois: Queen of Scots for Six Months, 1537
Two months before turning seventeen Madeleine de Valois wrote to her father that she was getting better. Twenty-nine days later she would be dead.
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Henry VIII's Northern Progress of 1541 and Catherine Howard
Henry had travelled north intending to demonstrate his absolute power. His wife accompanied him. So did her lover.
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Agnes Sampson: The Wise Wife of Keith and the North Berwick Witch Trials
She was known as the Wise Wife of Keith. That was her title before they gave her another one.
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Arbella Stuart: Thirty Years Without a Charge
Elizabeth I never charged her. Never tried her. Never explained. She simply decided that a girl born with royal blood was too dangerous to be free, and Arbella Stuart spent thirty years learning what that decision felt like from the inside.
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Mary Stuart: Nineteen Years in England
She crossed into England in a fishing boat at twenty-five and wrote to her cousin asking for help. She would not leave for nineteen years. She would not leave alive.
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Margaret Douglas: Forty Years Reaching for the Crown
She exchanged rings with a man in secret and Henry VIII put him in the Tower. He died there. She walked out and went back to court and spent the next forty years reaching for the crown that had killed him.
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Rhys ap Gruffydd: Rhys ap Thomas's Grandson, Executed by Henry VIII
His grandfather had put the Tudors on the throne of England. Henry VIII took his head in return.
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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.