The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglass, Countess of Lennox

568 Pages·2016·5.63 MB·English

by  Lennox

Contents
Cover
About the Book
About the Author
Also by Alison Weir
List of Illustrations
Maps
Genealogical Tables
Chief Dramatis Personae
Dedication
Title Page
Introduction
Prologue
1 ‘A Fair Young Lady’
2 ‘Disdained with Dishonour’
3 ‘The Princess of Scotland’
4 ‘Suffering in Sorrow’
5 ‘Now May I Mourn’
6 ‘Beware the Third Time’
7 ‘A Strong Man of Personage’
8 ‘This Happy Match’
9 ‘Great Unnaturalness’
10 ‘The Person Best Suited to Succeed’
11 ‘The Second Person in the Kingdom’
12 ‘Her Son Should Be King’
13 ‘Indignation and Punishment’
14 ‘Lady Lennox’s Disgrace’
15 ‘Strait Imprisonment’
16 ‘In Great Trouble’
17 ‘Horrible and Abominable Murder’
18 ‘Business Most Vile’
19 ‘Treason Bereft Me’
20 ‘The Hasty Marriage’
21 ‘Till Death Do Finish My Days’
22 ‘A Progenitor of Princes’
Picture Section
Notes and References
Appendix I: Margaret’s Portraiture
Appendix II: Miscellaneous Poems Copied by Margaret Douglas into the
Devonshire Manuscript
Bibliography
Index
Copyright
About the Book
Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Her mother was a queen, her father an earl,
and she herself was the granddaughter, niece, cousin and grandmother of
monarchs. Some thought she should be queen of England. She ranked high at the
court of her uncle, Henry VIII, and was lady of honour to five of his wives.
Beautiful and tempestuous, she created scandal, not just once, but twice, by
falling in love with unsuitable men. Fortunately, the marriage arranged for her
turned into a love match.
Throughout her life her dynastic ties to two crowns proved hazardous. A born
political intriguer, she was imprisoned in the Tower of London on three
occasions, once under sentence of death. She helped to bring about one of the
most notorious royal marriages of the sixteenth century, but it brought her only
tragedy. Her son and her husband were brutally murdered, and there were
rumours that she herself was poisoned. She warred with two queens, Mary of
Scotland and Elizabeth of England. A brave survivor, she was instrumental in
securing the Stuart succession to the throne of England for her grandson.
Her story deserves to be better known. This is the biography of an extraordinary
life that spanned five Tudor reigns, a life packed with intrigue, drama and
tragedy.
About the Author
Alison Weir lives and works in Surrey. Her non-fiction books include The Six
Wives of Henry VIII, Children of England, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry VIII:
King and Court, Mary, Queen of Scots, Katherine Swynford and Elizabeth of
York. Her novels include Innocent Traitor, The Lady Elizabeth and A Dangerous
Inheritance.
By the same author
Non-Fiction
BRITAIN’S ROYAL FAMILIES:
The Complete Genealogy THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII THE PRINCES
IN THE TOWER
LANCASTER AND YORK:
The Wars of the Roses CHILDREN OF ENGLAND:
The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547–1558
ELIZABETH THE QUEEN
ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE
HENRY VIII:
King and Court MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
AND THE MURDER OF LORD DARNLEY
ISABELLA:
She-Wolf of France, Queen of England KATHERINE SWYNFORD:
The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess THE LADY IN THE
TOWER:
The Fall of Anne Boleyn MARY BOLEYN:
‘The Great and Infamous Whore’
ELIZABETH OF YORK:
The First Tudor Queen As co-author
THE RING AND THE CROWN:
A History of Royal Weddings, 1066–2011
Fiction
INNOCENT TRAITOR
THE LADY ELIZABETH
THE CAPTIVE QUEEN
A DANGEROUS INHERITANCE
THE MARRIAGE GAME
Quick Reads
TRAITORS OF THE TOWER
List of Illustrations
Unknown woman, by Hans Holbein. (Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II 2015)
The Somerley Portrait, attributed to Luca Penni. (Reproduced by permission of
Somerley Enterprises)
Unknown woman, by William Scrots, c.1544–55. (© Christie’s Images Limited,
2015)
The only authenticated portrait of Margaret; detail from the Darnley Memorial
painting by Livinius de Vogelaare, 1568. (Royal Collection Trust/© Her
Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015)
Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, French School, sixteenth century. (Royal
Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015)
Margaret Tudor, possibly French School, copy of an original portrait of c.1514–
15. (The Provost and Fellows of The Queen’s College, Oxford)
Harbottle Castle, Northumberland. (© Daniel Ewen)
Tantallon Castle, East Lothian. (© Kieran Baxter)
Norham Castle, Northumberland. (© Bailey: Jonathan/Arcaid/Corbis)
Henry VIII, artist unknown, Anglo-Netherlandish School, c.1535–40. (©
National Portrait Gallery, London)
Mary Tudor, Duchess of Suffolk, eighteenth-century copy of a portrait attributed
to Johannes Corvus (Jan Rav). (By permission of Sudeley Castle)
The Princess Mary, later Mary I, by Master John, 1544. (© National Portrait
Gallery, London)
Mary Shelton, by Hans Holbein. (Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II 2015)
Mary Howard, Duchess of Richmond, by Hans Holbein, c.1532–3. (Royal
Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015)
Queen Anne Boleyn, attributed to British School, sixteenth century. (Royal
Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015)
Verses copied by Margaret into the Devonshire Manuscript. (By permission of
the British Library, Additional MS. 17,492 The Devonshire Manuscript,
Margaret Lennox 65 r)
The Tower of London, engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar, c.1640. (The Thomas
Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto)
Syon Abbey, by Jonathan Foyle, 2004. (© Dr Jonathan Foyle)
Kenninghall, Norfolk. (Arundel Castle Archives, and reproduced by kind
permission of His Grace the Duke of Norfolk)
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, by Hans Holbein, 1539. (Royal
Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015)
The ‘Man in Red’, German Netherlandish School, c.1530–50. (Royal Collection
Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015)
Marie de Guise, Queen Dowager of Scotland, artist unknown, seventeenth
century. (Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015)
St James’s Palace, London. (© Cindy A Eve – 3DaysInLondon.info) The Chapel
Royal, St James’s Palace. (© WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Stepney Palace. (The Angus Library and Archive, Regent’s Park College)
Wressle Castle. (© Mark Morton)
Temple Newsam, engraving by Johannes Kip, 1707. (© UK Government Art
Collection)
The west wing of Temple Newsam. (© Stephen Woodcock)
Settrington, Yorkshire. (© North York Moors National Park Authority)
Jervaulx Abbey. (© Heritage Images/Getty Images)
Queen Katherine Parr, artist unknown, c.1545. (© National Portrait Gallery,
London)
Miniature of an unknown woman, by Levina Teerlinc, c.1560. (© Victoria and
Albert Museum, London)
Anne Stanhope, Countess of Hertford and Duchess of Somerset. (U1590 Z68 –
Courtesy of Kent History & Library Centre, Maidstone by kind permission of
The Trustees of Chevening Estate)
Probably Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk, artist unknown, sixteenth
century. (Photographic Survey, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Private collection)
Elizabeth I, miniature by Nicholas Hilliard, c.1572. (© National Portrait Gallery,
London)
William Cecil, Lord Burghley, artist unknown, seventeenth century. (© National
Trust Images)
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, attributed to Steven van der Meulen, c.1560–5.
(© The Wallace Collection, London)
The former Charterhouse at Sheen, pen and ink with watercolour by Antonis van
der Wyngaerde, 1562. (WA.C.LG.IV.12b, detail from: Richmond Palace from
across the Thames, © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford)
Henry, Lord Darnley, and Charles Stuart, by Hans Eworth, 1563. (Royal
Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015)
Henry, Lord Darnley, and Charles Stuart, attributed to Hans Eworth, 1562.
(Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015)
Margaret’s unnamed daughters, from her tomb in Westminster Abbey. (©
Angelo Hornak/Corbis)
The Lennoxes’ house at Whorlton, drawing by Samuel Buck, 1725. (By
permission of the British Library, MS.914 Lansdowne MS)
The Lennox Jewel, obverse and reverse. (Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II 2015)
Mary, Queen of Scots, artist unknown, c.1569. (Reproduced by permission of
Blairs Museum)
Henry, Lord Darnley, artist unknown, 1567. (© Alan Spencer Photography)
The Lieutenant’s Lodging (now the Queen’s House) in the Tower of London. (©
Sebastian Wasek/LOOP IMAGES/Loop Images/Corbis)
The murder scene at Kirk O’Field. (The National Archives, MPF 1/366)
Coldharbour, London, from Walter Thornbury’s London, Old and New. (Digital
Collections and Archives, Tufts University)
Somerset Place, Strand, London. (© Look and Learn)
The Darnley Memorial, by Livinius de Vogelaare, 1568. (Royal Collection
Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015)
The Darnley Memorial, undefaced copy after Livinius de Vogelaare, c.1568.
(The Trustees of the Goodwood Collection/Bridgeman Images)
Matthew Stuart, Earl of Lennox, by Livinius de Vogelaare, c.1568. (© National
Trust Images)
John Erskine, Earl of Mar, by John Scougal, after an unknown artist. (Scottish
National Portrait Gallery)
James Douglas, Earl of Morton, by Arnold van Brounckhorst, c.1578. (Scottish
National Portrait Gallery)
Stirling Castle. (© Joe Cornish/Arcaid/Corbis)
Barber’s Barn, Hackney, artist unknown, lithograph of 1842. (© Victoria and
Albert Museum, London)
Brooke House in 1920. (Reproduced by permission of the Bishopsgate Institute)
Brooke House, engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1642. (© Look and Learn)
The chapel at Brooke House, engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1642.
(Reproduced by permission of Historic England)
Wall painting in the chapel. (Reproduced by permission of the Survey of
London/British History Online)