52. Leicester’s Commonwealth, 18
53. Following Leicester’s death in 1588, he entered the service of James VI. He died in 1590 in Edinburgh.
54. Ashdown RT, 174
55. Stedall SC, 138
56. Lefuse, 6
57. CSP Scotland 5, 368
58. CSP Scotland 5, 368; NA C.66, 1170; Macauley, 84; Durant, 18. Mann says that Margaret was first buried in Hackney Church with Charles, and was moved to Westminster by James I, but this is not supported by the other evidence.
59. CSP Scotland 5, 328
60. Ibid.
61. Lovell, 276
62. Lisle TFS, 353
63. Holinshed 5
64. Stow
65. Holinshed 5
66. Meaning a representation or model, in this case almost certainly an effigy.
67. Holinshed 5
68. Strong TJP, 199
69. An electrotype of the effigy is in the National Portrait Gallery.
70. Arnold QEWU, 128, 152
71. Whitelock, 353
72. For the tomb, see The Douglas Archives; Wilkinson
73. Scott Giles
74. Borman, 298
75. Camden, 277
76. Holinshed 5
77. Clarke
78. Gristwood, 17
79. Clarke
80. Ibid.
22. “A Progenitor of Princes”
1. Keith 3, 307; Hardy, 13
2. CSP Simancas 2, 493
3. NA SP 52/27, f.120v
4. Gristwood, 29
5. CSP Scotland 5, 356
6. Eden et al.
7. Original Letters 2, 60
8. Hardy, 33; Gristwood, 51; University of Nottingham MS. Mi6/1/173/242
9. Possibly the “H” stood for “Henry Darnley” or “Henry VIII.”
10. Darnley’s emblem.
11. Hardy, 25; Lefuse, 26–27
12. Tytler
13. Royal Treasures
14. Hardy, 25–26
15. Ashdown RT, 177–78; Hardy, 55
16. Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland 3, 154–57; CSP Scotland 5, 365
17. Macauley, 86
18. NA SP 52/31, f.2
19. Somerset
20. CSP Scotland 5, 368
21. CSP Scotland 5, 369
22. NA SP 52/31, f.5
23. CSP Scotland 6, 505
24. Schutte, 53
25. The head of the vault is in fact two or three feet to the south of the tomb.
26. Stanley, 510–11. The discovery of Richmond’s body in this vault left Stanley baffled as to why it should be there when his heart was encased in an urn near his son’s magnificent monument in the Henry VII Chapel.
27. Clarke
Appendix I: Margaret’s Portraiture
1. Strong EI, 44; Strong TJP, 200
2. Lisle, interview for the Lady Jane Grey Reference Guide
3. I am grateful to Siobhan Clarke, a guide lecturer at Historic Royal Palaces, who guides in costume as Margaret Douglas, for this comparison.
4. Marshall ODNB; Lisle, interview for the Lady Jane Grey Reference Guide; James, in Apollo; Porter CT, 312
5. Strong ERM, 47
6. Now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
7. Lloyd and Remington, 1538
8. Denny KH, 175; Holbein and the Court of Henry VIII, 126–27; James, in Apollo; Treasures: The Royal Collection, 61; Reynolds, 50–52; Arnold PM, 5; Jane Roberts, 126; Foister, 102
9. Lost Faces, 72
10. Lost Faces, 74
11. Information from www.christies.com
12. Portrait of a Woman in Black; Hans Eworth and the London Stranger Painters
13. Guy HRPP
14. Bridgeman; Hans Eworth and the London Stranger Painters
15. Strong HE; Hans Eworth and the London Stranger Painters
16. It’s About Time; Portrait of an Unknown Woman
17. Strong TJP, 199
18. Millar QP, 23
19. Millar TSEGP, 77; Strong TJP, 200
20. Millar TSEGP, 77
21. Ibid.
22. Thurley
23. Royal Collection Trust: Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
24. Kitson and Pawson
25. Millar TSEGP, 73
26. Scan kindly sent to me by Sally E. Douglas of The Douglas Archives.
27. Strickland LQS 2, 112
28. Reynolds, 304; Strong ATC, 65; Hearn, 36; The Fitzwilliam Museum
29. Strong TJP, 200
30. A Noble Visage
31. Scan kindly sent to me by Sally E. Douglas of The Douglas Archives.
Appendix II: Miscellaneous Poems Copied by Margaret Douglas into the Devonshire Manuscript
1. Additional MS. 17,492; Heale
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