1st August 2016
Today in 1503 my current heroine Margaret Tudor crossed the border to Scotland to become its queen. Aged just thirteen, she was the symbol of the alliance between her father Henry VII and her bridegroom James IV – a man of thirty. She had lost her mother Elizabeth of York just six months before, and now she left behind her father, grandmother and younger siblings Henry and Mary, as well as her widowed sister-in-law Katherine of Aragon. Two days later she would meet James for the first time at Dalkeith. My novel, Three Sisters, Three Queens, tells their story and is coming out next week. I hope you enjoy my descriptions of Margaret's first impressions of Scotland and its king.
http://www.philippagregory.com/books/three-sisters...
Image: Margaret Tudor Queen of Scots, detail of a family tree of King James I of England, to show his Tudor ancestry, c.1601, via Wikimedia Commons; the covers of Three Sisters, Three Queens – red for US/CA, blue for UK/IE/AUS/NZ