ROYAL MARGARETS.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20275, 18 August 1937, Page 5

ROYAL MARGARETS.

AM APPROACHING BIRTHDAY. On Saturday Princess Margaret Rose, second daughter of their Majesties the King and Queen, will be seven years old. This lovely child, whose photographs show such an imp of mischief lurking behind an angelic smile, Is a warm favourite throughout the Empire, and especially in Scotland, the land ol her birth. There Is a long line of Royal Margarets of England, going back to that young Margaret who was the wife* ot that King Malcolm of Scotland whose name is met in Shakespeare's pages. Two centuries later another English Margaret became a Scottish Queen. This little daughter of Henry ITT was used as a peacemaker, a threatened war between England and Scotland being averted by her betrothal to the Infant son of the King of Scotland. Another English Margaret fo become Queen of Scotland was the daughter of Henry \ It. who married James IV. On the death of her husband she married a second time, and so incensed were the Scots that, the Queen had. to escape to England, giving up the Cogency and the custody of her son, the infant King of Scotland. 7t was through the grandson of Margaret Tudor. Queen of Scotland, that the union of England and Scotland took place. .Tames VI of Scotland and 1 of England was doubly Queen Margaret’s great-grandson through her son, .Tames V, and. his Mnrv Queen of Scots, and through her daughter Margaret, child of her second marriage, and Margaret Douglas’s son, Lord Darnley.