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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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Critic reviews

"Alison Weir is one of our best popular historians and one, moreover, with an impressive scholarly pedigree in Tudor history." ( Independent)
"[Weir] has a good eye for period detail – and her re-creation of the late 15th century domestic and ceremonial world is terrific." ( Sunday Time)
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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.

Well researched

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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!

Interesting

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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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The book wasn’t bad but I have to say not very exciting either. The only reason I managed to finish was because the narrator was very good

Not bad

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I like this sort of book and Maggie Mash was as good as usual. lost interest a bit as so much is about the letters wrote which flattens the story.

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