The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas by Weir Alison

Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780345521392
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2016-01-12T05:00:00+00:00

On the 27th, to gratify the Queen, Lennox went through a ceremony of reconciliation with Châtelherault, his old foe, although their enmity would continue to simmer.

Randolph reported on November 3 that Mary had spoken no word about marrying Darnley, “though here it is in the mouths of all men that it is concluded in this Queen’s heart.” Still “Lady Margaret and Lord Darnley are looked for” in Scotland, but Randolph expressed doubts whether Margaret would “be as soon restored unto the earldom of Angus, as her husband was to Lennox, for there depends more matter thereon, which if proved true, will disappoint her farther than anything she looks for here.”66 Morton, acting for his nephew, Archibald Douglas, was doing his utmost to prove Margaret illegitimate.

On November 4, Silva informed Philip II that Lennox had written to Elizabeth “informing her that, as his relatives and lawyers are of opinion that the presence of his son is necessary for the preservation of these estates, he begs her to give him leave to come and take joint possession with him. The Queen replied to Lady Margaret, congratulating her on the restoration of her husband’s estate, and said she would be pleased to give her son the licence requested. This was repeated to her also by Cecil and Leicester.” But then, Silva went on to explain, Elizabeth’s mood changed.

After the licence was granted, the next day the Queen said to Margaret that she was very vexed and offended at her husband for having asked for the licence for the son with all this caution, saying that his lawyers had advised him that his son’s presence was necessary to take possession of the estate, when such was not the fact. For this reason she had decided not to give him leave to go, as she would have done willingly if she had been asked in a straightforward way.

Margaret explained the matter in such a way that the Queen again said she would give the licence and would answer her husband’s letter. Notwithstanding all this it has been decided not to give the licence. This is the way with everything—-absolutely no certainty.

This Lennox, Margaret and her son are Catholics, and profess attachment to your Majesty. I do what is requisite to entertain them, although with great caution and secrecy. As Margaret is one of the claimants to the succession, and a Catholic, the Queen and her ministers attach a great deal of importance to her and are so suspicious, so excited and so anxious that Margaret says they conduct themselves as if they were frantic, and certainly she is not far wrong.67

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