The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas

640 Pages·2016·53.14 MB·English

by  Weir Alison.

Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Illustrations
Introduction
Prologue
CHAPTER 1 “A Fair Young Lady”
CHAPTER 2 “Disdained with Dishonour”
CHAPTER 3 “The Princess of Scotland”
CHAPTER 4 “Suffering in Sorrow”
CHAPTER 5 “Now May I Mourn”
CHAPTER 6 “Beware the Third Time”
CHAPTER 7 “A Strong Man of Personage”
CHAPTER 8 “This Happy Match”
CHAPTER 9 “Great Unnaturalness”
CHAPTER 10 “The Person Best Suited to Succeed”
CHAPTER 11 “The Second Person in the Kingdom”
CHAPTER 12 “Her Son Should Be King”
CHAPTER 13 “Indignation and Punishment”
CHAPTER 14 “Lady Lennox’s Disgrace”
CHAPTER 15 “Strait Imprisonment”
CHAPTER 16 “In Great Trouble”
CHAPTER 17 “Horrible and Abominable Murder”
CHAPTER 18 “Business Most Vile”
CHAPTER 19 “Treason Bereft Me”
CHAPTER 20 “The Hasty Marriage”
CHAPTER 21 “Till Death Do Finish My Days”
CHAPTER 22 “A Progenitor of Princes”
Maps
Margaret’s Scotland
Margaret’s England
Genealogical Tables
Appendix I: Margaret’s Portraiture
Appendix II: Miscellaneous Poems Copied by Margaret Douglas into the Devonshire Manuscript
Chief Dramatis Personae
Photo Insert
Dedication
Notes and References
Bibliography
By Alison Weir
About the Author
Illustrations
pai1.1 Unknown woman by Hans Holbein. (Royal Collection Trust/©
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015)
pai1.2 The Somerley Portrait, attributed to Luca Penni. (Reproduced by
permission of Somerley Enterprises)
pai1.3 Unknown woman by William Scrots, ca.1544–55. (© Christie’s
Images Limited, 2015)
pai1.4 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)
pai1.5 Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, French School, sixteenth
century. (Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
2015)
pai1.6 Margaret Tudor, possibly French School, copy of an original
portrait of ca.1514–15. (The Provost and Fellows of The Queen’s
College, Oxford)
pai1.7 Harbottle Castle, Northumberland. (© Daniel Ewen)
pai1.8 Tantallon Castle, East Lothian. (© Kieran Baxter)
pai1.9 Norham Castle, Northumberland. (© Bailey:
Jonathan/Arcaid/Corbis)
pai1.10 Henry VIII, artist unknown, Anglo-Netherlandish School,
ca.1535–40. (© National Portrait Gallery, London)
pai1.11 Mary Tudor, Duchess of Suffolk, eighteenth-century copy of a
portrait attributed to Johannes Corvus (Jan Rav). (By permission of
Sudeley Castle)
pai1.12 The Princess Mary, later Mary I, by Master John, 1544. (©
National Portrait Gallery, London)
pai1.13 Mary Shelton by Hans Holbein. (Royal Collection Trust/© Her
Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015)
pai1.14 Mary Howard, Duchess of Richmond, by Hans Holbein,
ca.1532–23. (Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II 2015)
pai1.15 Queen Anne Boleyn, attributed to British School, sixteenth
century. (Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
2015)
pai1.16 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)
pai1.17 The Tower of London, engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar,
ca.1640. (The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of
Toronto)
pai1.18 Syon Abbey by Jonathan Foyle, 2004. (© Dr Jonathan Foyle)
pai1.19 Kenninghall, Norfolk. (Arundel Castle Archives, and reproduced
by kind permission of His Grace the Duke of Norfolk)
pai1.20 Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, by Hans Holbein, 1539.
(Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015)
pai1.21 The “Man in Red,” German Netherlandish School, ca.1530–50.
(Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015)
pai1.22 Marie de Guise, Queen Dowager of Scotland, artist unknown,
seventeenth century. (Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II 2015)
pai1.23 St James’s Palace, London. (© Cindy A Eve—
3DaysInLondon.info)
pai1.24 The Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace. (© WPA Pool/Getty
Images)
pai1.25 Stepney Palace. (The Angus Library and Archive, Regent’s Park
College)
pai1.26 Wressle Castle. (© Mark Morton)
pai1.27 Temple Newsam, engraving by Johannes Kip, 1707. (© UK
Government Art Collection)
pai1.28 The west wing of Temple Newsam. (© Stephen Woodcock)
pai1.29 Settrington, Yorkshire. (© North York Moors National Park
Authority)
pai1.30 Jervaulx Abbey. (© Heritage Images/Getty Images)
pai1.31 Queen Katherine Parr, artist unknown, ca.1545. (© National
Portrait Gallery, London)
pai1.32 Miniature of an unknown woman, by Levina Teerlinc, ca.1560.
(© Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
pai1.33 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)
pai1.34 Probably Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk, artist
unknown, sixteenth century. (Photographic Survey, The Courtauld
Institute of Art, London. Private collection)
pai1.35 Elizabeth I, miniature by Nicholas Hilliard, ca.1572. (© National
Portrait Gallery, London)
pai1.36 William Cecil, Lord Burghley, artist unknown, seventeenth
century. (© National Trust Images)
pai1.37 Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, attributed to Steven van der
Meulen, ca.1560–65. (© The Wallace Collection, London)
pai1.38 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)
pai1.39 Henry, Lord Darnley, and Charles Stuart, by Hans Eworth, 1563.
(Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015)
pai1.40 Henry, Lord Darnley, and Charles Stuart, attributed to Hans
Eworth, 1562. (Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II 2015)
pai1.41 Margaret’s unnamed daughters, from her tomb in Westminster
Abbey. (© Angelo Hornak/Corbis)
pai1.42 The Lennoxes’ house at Whorlton, drawing by Samuel Buck,
1725. (By permission of the British Library, MS.914 Lansdowne
MS)
pai1.43 The Lennox Jewel, obverse and reverse. (Royal Collection
Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015)
pai1.44 Mary, Queen of Scots, artist unknown, ca.1569. (Reproduced by
permission of Blairs Museum)
pai1.45 Henry, Lord Darnley, artist unknown, 1567. (© Alan Spencer
Photography)
pai1.46 The Lieutenant’s Lodging (now the Queen’s House) in the
Tower of London. (© Sebastian Wasek/LOOP IMAGES/Loop
Images/Corbis)
pai1.47 The murder scene at Kirk O’Field. (The National Archives, MPF
1/366)
pai1.48 Coldharbour, London, from Walter Thornbury’s London, Old
and New. (Digital Collections and Archives, Tufts University)
pai1.49 Somerset Place, Strand, London. (© Look and Learn)
pai1.50 The Darnley Memorial, by Livinius de Vogelaare, 1568. (Royal
Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015)
pai1.51 The Darnley Memorial, undefaced copy after Livinius de
Vogelaare, ca.1568. (The Trustees of the Goodwood
Collection/Bridgeman Images)
pai1.52 Matthew Stuart, Earl of Lennox, by Livinius de Vogelaare,
ca.1568. (© National Trust Images)
pai1.53 John Erskine, Earl of Mar, by John Scougal, after an unknown
artist. (Scottish National Portrait Gallery)
pai1.54 James Douglas, Earl of Morton, by Arnold van Brounckhorst,
ca.1578. (Scottish National Portrait Gallery)
pai1.55 Stirling Castle. (© Joe Cornish/Arcaid/Corbis)
pai1.56 Barber’s Barn, Hackney, artist unknown, lithograph of 1842. (©
Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
pai1.57 Brooke House in 1920. (Reproduced by permission of the
Bishopsgate Institute)
pai1.58 Brooke House, engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1642. (© Look
and Learn)
pai1.59 The chapel at Brooke House, engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar,
1642. (Reproduced by permission of Historic England)
pai1.60 Wall painting in the chapel. (Reproduced by permission of the
Survey of London/British History Online)
pai1.61 Charles Stuart as a child, English School, ca.1565. (Hardwick
Hall, Derbyshire, UK National Trust Photographic
Library/Bridgeman Images)
pai1.62 Charles Stuart, Earl of Lennox. (Whereabouts unknown. Every
effort has been made to trace the owner of this picture, without
success. Anyone with information about it should contact the
publishers.)
pai1.63 Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury, attributed to
Rowland Lockey, 1590s. (© National Trust Images)
pai1.64 Arbella Stuart, artist unknown, 1577. (© National Trust Images)
pai1.65 “A Scottish lady at length in mourning habit,” British School,
sixteenth century. (Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II 2015)
pai1.66 James VI, King of Scots, by Rowland Lockey after Arnold van
Brounckhorst’s original of 1574. (Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, UK
National Trust Photographic Library/Bridgeman Images)
pai1.67 Margaret’s tomb in Westminster Abbey. (© Werner
Forman/Werner Forman/Corbis)
pai1.68 Margaret’s tomb effigy. (© National Portrait Gallery, London)