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  • By: Alison Weir
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By: Alison Weir
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Summary

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

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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One of Weir's best

Margaret Douglas was a heavyweight political player in both Scotland and England throughout much of the Tudor period. She crops up as an incidental character in many histories of that time but Alison Weir demonstrates that she fully deserves a starring role because she was a central character in many dynastic dramas; she led a life full of incident and romance and better yet she left a mountain of highly personal poems and letters that give us a real insight into her thoughts and personality; the sort of detail that's very rare for powerful Tudor figures.

Margaret was a great beauty with a better claim to the throne than Elizabeth the First who strived her whole life to overcome the obstacle of passionately held Catholic beliefs and Elizabeth's personal enmity to get her offspring onto the Scottish and English thrones. During that time she fell in love three times, was sent to the Tower of London three times, had Mary Queen of Scots as a daughter in Law, ran a network of spies and was a close friend of "Bloody" Mary Tudor. That's by no means the whole story but it gives some sense of the way she took life by the scruff of the neck.

Alison Weir has translated a treasure trove of Margaret's papers into a satisfying and dramatic listen which offers a unique window into both Scottish and English history. Margaret emerges as a rounded, flawed human being but someone with real magnetism.

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Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

No. I have been interested in Lady Margaret as she appears in many historical books . I feel this was an opportunity missed. The story is wonderful but was presented in a very disjointed manner. The narrator really put me off. She actually ruined it for me. The lowering of the voice when items appeared in parentheses was so distracting.

What other book might you compare The Lost Tudor Princess to, and why?

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Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Maggie Mash?

Simon Vance, Anna Massey

Could you see The Lost Tudor Princess being made into a movie or a TV series? Who would the stars be?

I could but with very little reference to this book

Any additional comments?

Could have been wonderful but disappointing

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How to survive a dangerous heritage

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.

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Disappointing

So disappointing as other books I've read by Weir were very good. I didn't even finis this book as I felt it was just a list of names and financial transactions. I would guess and say that there is little historical evidence telling us what the life of Margaret Douglas was actually like as this book seems to offer many suggestions and theories.

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Awful

I was really looking forward to this book. I was disappointed just after the first chapter. Very dull, very boring. I have given up after 5 chapters.
The constant poems and letters made it very hard to follow.
Shame it had such great potential.

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Not one of Alison Weir’s better books.

The subject matter ie Margaret Lennox is good. She was an interesting character with an incredible pedigree and high powered contacts. The poetry of the time is a key component in our subject‘s life but in this book it becomes boring. The continual translation of the value of the money is repetitious and irritating. Somehow this woman seems 2 dimensional and never comes alive in the pages of this book. I was left wondering what she had that made people like her so much. Most people who upset Henry VIII or his daughter didn’t last long but Margaret Lennox blotted her copybook time and again. Why did people like Cecil help her in an age where self interest was rife.

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must be the worse book written by Alison Weir

I love Alison Weir books full of interest, she tells a brilliant story and helps a reader to understand what can be a complicated story. However, this book was written completely different and to be honest totally boring. The narrated doesn't help with her drone voice. Very disappointed not sure if I will ever get to the end as it sends me to sleep.

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Not bad

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

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Complex historical period

The reader's voice became monotonous to listen to,
The story itself a comprehensive account of the personalities and conflicts of the age
Maybe not suitable for an audiobook

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Disappointing

I found the narration and the dramatisation disappointing it was more of caricature than character and for me detracted from the book.
I would’ve returned it early on but I was very interested in the history from this point of view and wasn’t disappointed in that.
Of course others may be quite happy with the way it was characterised but I would suggest they listen to the sample first.

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