Margaret Tudor (28 November 1489 – 18 October 1541) was Queen consort of Scotland from 8 August 1503 to 9 September 1513 as the wife of King James IV of Scotland.
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Margaret Tudor was born in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England on 28 November 1489, the oldest daughter of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York. She married King James IV of Scotland, becoming Queen consort of Scotland in 1503; she had several pregnancies, but most of her children died young or were stillborn. After her husband was killed at the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513, Margaret became regent for their son James V of Scotland. As queen dowager, she married Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus; through her first and second marriages, she was the grandmother of both Mary, Queen of Scots and Mary's second husband Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. She died in 1541.