Editing Margaret Tudor (section)

== Early life ==

{{Multiple image|image1=Enrique VII de Inglaterra, por un artista anónimo.jpg|image2=British School, 16th century - Elizabeth of York - Haunted Gallery, Hampton Court Palace.jpg|total_width=350|footer=[[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]] and [[Elizabeth of York]], Margaret's parents}}
[[File:Mary Tudor Jar.jpg|thumb|Possible portrait of Margaret or her sister [[Mary Tudor, Queen of France|Mary]]. Painted by [[Bernhard Strigel]], circa 1520.]]

Margaret was born on 28 November 1489 in the [[Palace of Westminster]] in [[London]] to King [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]] and his wife, [[Elizabeth of York]]. She was their second child and firstborn daughter. Her siblings included [[Arthur, Prince of Wales]], the future King [[Henry VIII]], and [[Mary Tudor, Queen of France|Mary]], who would briefly become [[Queen of France]]. Margaret was baptised in [[St. Margaret's, Westminster]] on St Andrew's Day.<ref>{{Harvp|Hearne|1774|pp=253–255}}</ref> She was named after [[Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby]], her paternal grandmother.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Marshall |first=Rosalind Kay |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JW1nAAAAMAAJ |title=Scottish Queens, 1034–1714 |publisher=Tuckwell |date=2003 |isbn=978-1-86232-271-4}}</ref> Her nurse was [[Alice Davy]], who later joined the household of [[Catherine of Aragon]].<ref>[[Maria Hayward]], ''Dress at the Court of Henry VIII'' (Maney, 2007), 305.</ref>

On 30 September 1497, James IV's commissioner, the Spaniard [[Pedro de Ayala]] concluded a lengthy truce with England, and the marriage with Margaret became a serious possibility. James was in his late twenties and still unmarried.<ref name="ashley">{{Cite book |last=Ashley |first=Mike |title=The mammoth book of British kings and queens |publisher=Robinson Publishers |date=1999 |isbn=1-84119-096-9 |location=London |page=567}}</ref> Pedro de Ayala heard that both Elizabeth of York and Margaret Beaufort opposed the marriage, contending that Margaret was too young to become a mother.<ref>Lauren Rose Browne, 'Elizabeth of York: Tudor Trophy Wife', Aidan Norrie, ''Tudor and Stuart Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 30–31.</ref> The Italian historian [[Polydore Vergil]] said that some of the [[Privy Council of England|English royal council]] objected to the match, saying that it would bring the [[House of Stuart|Stewarts]] directly into the line of English succession, to which the wily and astute Henry replied:<blockquote>What then? Should anything of the kind happen (and God avert the omen), I foresee that our realm would suffer no harm, since England would not be absorbed by Scotland, but rather Scotland by England, being the noblest head of the entire island, since there is always less glory and honour in being joined to that which is far the greater, just as Normandy once came under the rule and power of our ancestors the English.<ref>Vergil, Polydore, ''Historia Anglia'', Book 26 Chapter 41, (Latin), translation [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/polverg/ University of Birmingham Philogical Museum website]</ref></blockquote>

On 24 January 1502, Scotland and England concluded the [[Treaty of Perpetual Peace]], the first peace agreement between the two realms in over 170 years. The marriage treaty was concluded the same day and was viewed as a guarantee of the new peace. Margaret, who was still a child, remained in England, but was now known as the "Queen of Scots".<ref>Nicholas Harris Nicolas, [https://archive.org/details/privypurseexpens00nicouoft/page/n111/mode/2up ''Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York'' (London, 1830), pp. cii, 19, 86]</ref>