Like Mary Boleyn, Margaret Douglas was a medieval woman adjacent to power so the first hand accounts of her life are somewhat sketchy. She was the daughter of Henry VIII's sister Margaret Tudor and the mother-in-law of Mary, Queen of Scots (who was also Margaret Tudor's granddaughter, by Margaret Tudor's first marriage). She spent most of her young years as a political pawn (as most princesses of the era did), married into Scottish nobility, and maneuvered to put her immature and pleasure-seeking son on the Scottish throne. There aren't a lot of 'big events' in Margaret Douglas's life, but Weir's biography of her (like that of Mary Boleyn) outlines the machinations of the Tudor court.
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