Editing Margaret Tudor (section)

== Marriage and progress ==
The marriage was completed by [[Proxy marriage|proxy]] on 25 January 1502 at [[Richmond Palace]]. The [[Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell|Earl of Bothwell]] was proxy for the Scottish king and wore a gown of cloth-of-gold at the ceremony in the Queen's great chamber. He was accompanied by [[Robert Blackadder]], archbishop of Glasgow, and [[Andrew Forman]], postulate of Moray. The [[Somerset Herald|herald]], John Young, reported that "right notable jousts" followed the ceremony. Prizes were awarded the next morning, and the tournament continued another day.<ref>{{Harvp|Hearne|1774|pp=258–264}}</ref>

The new queen was provided with a large wardrobe of clothes, and her crimson state [[bed curtains]] made of Italian [[sarcenet]] were embroidered with red Lancastrian roses. Clothes were also made for her companion, [[Lady Catherine Gordon]], the widow of [[Perkin Warbeck]].<ref>{{Harvp|Bain|1888|pp=419–425}}</ref> The clothes were embroidered by John Flee.<ref>[[Samuel Bentley]], ''Excerpta Historica: Or, Illustrations of English History'' (London, 1831), p. 130.</ref> In May 1503, James IV confirmed her possession of lands and houses in Scotland, including [[Methven Castle]], [[Stirling Castle]], [[Doune Castle]], [[Linlithgow Palace]] and [[Newark Castle, Selkirkshire|Newark Castle]] in [[Ettrick Forest]], with the incomes from the corresponding earldom and lordship lands.<ref>{{Harvp|Bain|1888|pp=342–345}}, nos. 1707–1718.</ref>

Later in 1503, months after the death of her mother, Margaret left England for Scotland; her progress was a grand journey northward. She left Richmond Palace on 27 June with Henry VII, and they travelled first to [[Collyweston]] in [[Northamptonshire]]. At [[York]] a plaque commemorates the exact spot where the Queen of Scots entered its gates. After crossing the border at [[Berwick upon Tweed]] on 1 August 1503, Margaret was met by the Scottish court at [[Lamberton, Scottish Borders|Lamberton]]. At [[Dalkeith Palace]], James came to kiss her goodnight. He came again to console her on 4 August after a stable fire had killed some of her favourite horses. Her riding gear, including a new [[Caparison|sumpter cloth]] or pallion of cloth-of-gold worth £127 was destroyed in the fire.<ref>[[James Balfour Paul]], ''Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer'', vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1900), 214–215.</ref>

At a [[Meadowbank, Edinburgh|meadow a mile from Edinburgh]], there was a pavilion where Sir [[Patrick Hamilton of Kincavil|Patrick Hamilton]] and Patrick Sinclair played and fought in the guise of knights defending their ladies. On 8 August 1503, the marriage was celebrated in person in [[Holyrood Abbey]]. The rites were performed by the archbishop of Glasgow and [[Thomas Savage (bishop)|Thomas Savage]], archbishop of York, and Margaret was anointed during the ceremony.<ref>Hearne (1774, p. 294)</ref> Two days later, on [[Lawrence of Rome|St Lawrence's day]], Margaret went to mass at [[St Giles' Cathedral|St Giles']], the town's [[Kirk]], as her first public appointment.<ref>{{Harvp|Buchanan|1985|pp=30–32}}</ref> The details of the proxy marriage, progress, arrival, and reception in Edinburgh were recorded by the Somerset Herald, John Young.<ref>{{Harvp|Hearne|1774|pp=258–300}}</ref>

One English guest recorded the menu of the banquet in a copy of the ''Great Chronicle of London''.<ref>Lucinda H. S. Dean, ''Death and the Royal Succession in Scotland: Ritual, Ceremony and Power'' (Boydell & Brewer, 2024), p. 200: A. H. Thomas & I. D. Thornley, ''The Chronicle of London'' (Alan Sutton, 1983), p. 99.</ref> Dishes included solan geese with sauce, baked apples and pears, and jelly moulded with the arms of England and Scotland.<ref>Nadia T. van Pelt, ''Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII'' (Oxford, 2024), p. 99: Sarah Carpenter, 'Gely Wyth Tharms of Scotland England', Janet Hadley Williams & J. Derrick McClure, ''Freshe Fontanis'' (Newcastle, 2013), pp. 165–177.</ref> In the English parliament, [[Thomas More]] opposed Henry VII's plan for a tax to recover expenses for the wedding.<ref>Richard S. Sylvester & Davis P. Harding, ''Two Early Tudor Lives'' (Yale, 1962), pp. xvi, 199.</ref>