Editing Margaret Tudor (section)

== Death ==
Margaret died at [[Methven Castle]] on 18 October 1541.<ref name="Buchanan1985">{{Cite book |last=Patricia Hill Buchanan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tKtnAAAAMAAJ |title=Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots |date= 1985 |publisher=Scottish Academic Press |isbn=978-0-7073-0424-3}}</ref> Henry Ray, the [[Berwick Pursuivant]], reported that she had [[palsy]] (possibly resulting from a stroke) on Friday and died on the following Tuesday. As she thought she would recover she did not trouble to make a will. She sent for King James, who was at [[Falkland Palace]], but he did not come in time. Near the end she wished that the friars who attended her would seek the reconciliation of the King and the Earl of Angus. She hoped the King would give her possessions to her daughter, Lady Margaret Douglas. James arrived after her death, and he ordered [[Oliver Sinclair]] and [[John Tennent (courtier)|John Tennent]] to pack up her belongings for his use.<ref>''State Papers Henry VIII'', vol. 5 part 2 cont., (London, 1836), pp. 193–194, Ray to Privy Council.</ref> As a dowager queen, Margaret had received the rental money of the crown lands of Stirlingshire. After her death, this money was added to the king's income.<ref>[[Athol Murray (historian)|Athol Murray]], 'Crown Lands', ''An Historical Atlas of Scotland'' (Scottish Medievalists, 1975), p. 73.</ref>

Margaret was buried at the [[Perth Charterhouse|Charterhouse]] in [[Perth, Scotland|Perth]] (demolished during the [[Scottish Reformation|Reformation]], 1559, its site now occupied by the former [[King James VI Hospital]]). The funeral ceremony itself was possibly not as elaborate as that held in Edinburgh for [[Madeleine of Valois]] in 1537, but James V and his household were provided with expensive black clothes for a mourning period.<ref>Perin Westerhof Nyman, 'Mourning Madeleine and Margaret: Dress and Meaning in the Memorials for Two Scottish Queens, 1537 and 1541', ''Scottish Historical Review'', 100:3 (December 2021), pp. 359–377.</ref>