Margaret Tudor was an English princess and later Queen consort of Scotland. The eldest daughter of Elizabeth of York and Henry VII, Margaret was married to the Scots king James IV in order to bring peace between England and Scotland. Margaret's reign in Scotland was tumultuous after the death of her husband and marriage to Archibald Douglas, she was driven out of Scotland to seek protection in England. She returned to Scotland when her son, James V, began ruling in his own right and where she lived out her final years as the Queen mother. Margaret was grandmother to Mary Stuart and Lord Darnley and great grandmother to James VI / I who united the crowns of Scotland and England.
She is the central character of Three Sisters, Three Queens which charts Margaret's life and her relationship with her brother Henry VIII, his wife Catherine of Aragon and her sister Mary Tudor. Margaret throughout the novel is considered haughty and proud with a fierce rivalry with both her sisters that impacts on the politics between the two courts of Scotland and England. At the beginning of the novel she dislikes Catherine intensely, dubbing her "Catherine of Arrogant" and blames her for the deaths of her brother, Arthur, her mother, Elizabeth (she does not entirely blame Katherine for Elizabeth's death, she also blames Elizabeth herself) and infant sister Catherine. She later relents, still being haughty toward Catherine and spying on her for her grandmother, Margaret Beaufort, but she feels genuine sympathy when she sees Catherine cannot afford to uphold her household. She also looks down on her sister Mary and brother Henry (Harry), and mercilessly mocks and teases them.
In The Spanish Princess, she exhibits the same prophetic powers as her female ancestors Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Woodville, and Jacquetta of Luxembourg, predicting James IV's death in the Battle of Flodden.
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