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