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Ballantine Books, 2016. 605 p. ISBN 0345521390.From bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir comes the first biography of Margaret Douglas, the beautiful, cunning niece of Henry VIII of England who used her sharp intelligence and covert power to influence the succession after the death of Elizabeth I.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. Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, was an important figure in Tudor England, yet today, while her contemporaries-Anne Boleyn, Mary, Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I-have achieved celebrity status, she is largely forgotten. Margarets life was steeped in intrigue, drama, and tragedy-from her auspicious birth in 1530 to her parents bitter divorce, from her ill-fated love affairs to her appointment as lady-in-waiting for four of Henrys six wives. In an age when women were expected to stay out of the political arena, alluring and tempestuous Margaret helped orchestrate one of the most notorious marriages of the sixteenth century: that of her son Lord Darnley to Mary, Queen of Scots. Margaret defiantly warred with two queens-Mary, and Elizabeth of England-and was instrumental in securing the Stuart ascension to the throne of England for her grandson, James VI.The life of Margaret Douglas spans five reigns and provides many missing links between the Tudor and Stuart dynasties. Drawing on decades of research and myriad original sources-including many of Margarets surviving letters-Alison Weir brings this captivating character out of the shadows and presents a strong, capable woman who operated effectively and fearlessly at the very highest levels of power.

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The Lost Tudor Princess The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas - photo 2Copyright 2015 by Alison Weir All rights reserved Published in the United S - photo 3
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Copyright 2015 by Alison Weir

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

B ALLANTINE and the H OUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, a division of Penguin Random House London, as The Lost Tudor Princess:

The Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox in 2015.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Weir, Alison, author.

Title: The lost Tudor princess : the life of Margaret Douglas of Scotland /Alison Weir. Description: New York : Ballantine Books, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015037958| ISBN 9780345521392 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780345521415 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Lennox, Margaret Douglas, Countess of, 15151578. | Great BritainHistoryTudors, 14851603Biography. | Henry VIII, King of England, 14911547Family. | NobilityGreat BritainHistory16th century. | Mary, Queen of Scots, 15421587Family. | NobilityGreat BritainBiography.

Classification: LCC DA317.8.L49 W45 2016 | DDC 942.05/2092dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015037958

eBook ISBN9780345521415

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Book design by Victoria Wong, adapted for eBook

Cover design: Victoria Allen

Cover images: Tower of London Historic Royal Palaces; portrait of Margaret Douglas reproduced by permission of Somerley Enterprises

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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, ca.154455. ( Christies 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 ca.151415. (The Provost and Fellows of The Queens 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, ca.153540. ( 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, ca.153223. (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, ca.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, ca.153050. (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 Jamess Palace, London. ( Cindy A Eve3DaysInLondon.info)

The Chapel Royal, St Jamess Palace. ( WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Stepney Palace. (The Angus Library and Archive, Regents 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, ca.1545. ( National Portrait Gallery, London)

Miniature of an unknown woman, by Levina Teerlinc, ca.1560. ( Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

Anne Stanhope, Countess of Hertford and Duchess of Somerset. (U1590 Z68Courtesy 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, ca.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, ca.156065. ( 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)

Margarets 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)

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