NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE
INDEPENDENT •Frombestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir comes
the first biography of Margaret Douglas, the beautiful, cunning niece of Henry
VIII of England who used her sharp intelligence and covert power to influence
the succession after the death of Elizabeth I.
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. Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, was an important figure in
Tudor England, yet today, while her contemporaries—Anne Boleyn, Mary, Queen