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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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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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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.
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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 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.