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The Lost Tudor Princess

By: Alison Weir
Narrated by: Maggie Mash
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Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox. 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. 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.©2015 Alison Weir (P)2015 W.F. Howes Ltd Historical Military & War Politicians Politics & Activism Royalty Tudor
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Interesting and well researched book. The narrator read well in fine dulcet tones, but the periodic stage performed accents spoilt this otherwise enjoyable listen.

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And in such detail too!! Unfortunately the narrator's switching of accents was poor, misleading and wildly off the area that the person speaking was supposed to be from. I'm no Scot but I can hear the differences between area accents. Otherwise the story was far more fascinating than I originally thought it might be; despite the comment about 'ancestors' in the title I was unaware that the Countess of Lennox was so bloody-minded in her attempts to get her children on the thrones of both England and Scotland.

NIce to know what your ancestors were up to

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The basic story was interesting and well worth listening to however the reader was DIRE! Her attempts at ‘accents’ were quite deplorable and although I finished the book that was entirely because the story was interesting - I would NEVER listen to a book read by Maggie Mash again, there must be many, many more capable than her, sorry but it was awful!

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Not a terrible biography, and far better researched than Alison Weir’s appallingly amateurish ‘cash in’ books on medieval queens. Maggie Mash’s embarrassingly poor execution of accents and weird emphasis on even the most trivial single word quote makes this almost unbearable, however. Even the most innocuous statement is articulated as if the individual quoted was a pantomime villain. In places, it was so noisy and ridiculous that the narrative beneath—already drowned in an over-reliance on quotes in lieu of a mature biographical voice—was lost in childish nonsense

The tedious conversion of prices from the sixteenth century to current prices should also be cut. The relative values of goods to different cultures is complex and subjective, rendering the practice both boring for reader/listener and more or less meaningless. Although the ‘shopping list’ content is far shorter than Weir’s inferior biography of Elizabeth of York, it still smacks of a desperate attempt to add content regardless of interest, while devoid of any attempt to add analytical meaning.

Terrible narrator

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The life of Margaret Douglas, or Stewart, was even more eventful, and ultimately important, to the troubled history of Scotland and England from the 16th century to the present day than that of any of the four Tudor monarchs, whose reigns she endured.
Niece of Henry VIII, aunt and mother-in-law of Mary, Queen of Scots, daughter of the dowager queen of Scots, Margaret Tudor, and her second husband, Earl of Angus, a member of the tumultuous Douglas family, she survived refugee status on both sides of the border, ill advised romances, imprisonments (the Tower of London quite a few times) from the reign of Henry to die of natural causes in the time of Elizabeth, maintained a long and happy marriage with Matthew Stewart, Earl of Lennox (a traitor to his native land, war criminal by our standards) in spite of her support for the Catholic cause, her outspokenness, conspiracies and financial irregularities, to marry her unpleasant son Henry Darnley to Queen Mary, so becoming grandmother to James VI & I, and so matriarch to UK royals to this day.
So many other women connected with the Tudors, Stewarts and Douglases came to violent early deaths, that her story has been largely overshadowed by more romantic legends, but Alison Weir has done well to chronicle her life, which casts much light on that unsettled era.
Fortunately for Scotland, the crowns were not united by Henry VIII’s bloody attempts to marry his son Edward VI to Mary, Queen of Scots (the “Rough Wooing”) which would have made us slaves, but by the accession of Margaret’s grandson to the English throne, ultimately allowing us to retain a measure of autonomy and much self-respect.

How to survive a dangerous heritage

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