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Margaret Tudor: She Sent for Her Son, and He Came Too Late
Margaret Tudor was fifty-one when she sent for her son to come to Methven. He arrived too late.
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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.