The Border Vixen
“He was James, Duke of Rothsay. Her second son, Arthur, was born on the twenty-fourth of April the following year. For Scotland, 1541 was not a good year. Prince James died two days after his brother’s birth, and the baby Arthur died on April thirtieth. James V was now without legitimate heirs once again. The marriage between James’s mother, Margaret Tudor, and his father, James IV, had been made to ensure peace between the two countries. The peace barely survived the death of its maker, James’s... father-in-law, Henry VII. The fragile peace had been broken several times over the years, the worst example being the battle fought on Flodden Field in September 1513. James IV was not a man who wanted war. For the first time in years, Scotland was peaceful from the Borders to the Highlands. It was prosperous. But his alliance with France required he attack England if England attacked France. And England’s volatile king, James’s brother-in-law, Henry VIII, had joined the Holy League with Spain, Venice, and the pope to wage war on France.MoreLess
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