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Margaret Tudor was the much loved and pampered daughter of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. Married to the charismatic James IV of Scotland, her life as a queen-consort was honourable and happy. Her marriage was arranged to bring peace between England and Scotland but diplomacy failed and James IV was killed, along with the cream of the Scottish nobility, at the battle of Flodden in 1513. As a widow of twenty-three, Margaret struggled to maintain her position in a violent and divided nation. Acting as regent for her son, James V, Margaret became the first Tudor woman to rule a kingdom and despite the crippling blow of Flodden, it is Margaret's descendants, not her brother, Henry VIII's, who carried on the royal bloodlines of both Scotland and England.The material was first published on www.tudortimes.co.uk

James VI of Scotland became James I of England in 1603. He was thirty-six years old, and had been a king for nearly all his life, negotiating the complex politics of his minority with some skill. James was a man of huge intellect and lofty ideals. His aims throughout his life were entirely laudable - peace at home and abroad, reconciliation in religion and good government at home. Unfortunately, his personal characteristics of trying to please everyone, being rather shifty about the truth, having an inflated view of his own brilliance and ability to convince others, and, most dangerous of all in a king, his lack of resolution to follow a policy through, meant that his reign was not so successful as it might have been. Nevertheless, he brought England and Scotland together in peace, promoted a church that the majority of his subjects could accept, and left an adult male heir - more than many of his predecessors had achieved..