LETTER OF THE MONTH
A regal relative
In November’s Letters, Jenny Martin requested a feature on Queen Margaret of Scotland (c1045–93). However, the Saxon Princess Margaret of Wessex – as she was also known – is not all she seems.
Rightly revered as a saint, her legacy was, though, not at first appreciated in Scotland. On her death - days after that of her husband, Malcolm III - the perceived Anglicisation of the Scottish court and church was immediately overturned, and the royal children were forced into exile in England.
Margaret’s marriage to Malcolm III was a political move to advance the cause of her brother, Edgar Ætheling. Both Edgar - the Saxon claimant to the
