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Margaret Tudor (November 28, 1489 – October 18, 1541), the elder sister of King Henry VIII, was Queen consort of Scotland from 1503 until 1513 by her marriage to James IV of Scotland. Their union linked the royal houses of both nations. Along with King Henry’s Walk, Boleyn Road, King Henry Street, Wolsey Road, and Tudor Court, this commemorates Tudor connections with the local area. Henry VIII owned a hunting lodge at Newington Green where he reputedly seduced his mistresses; it is also where Margaret’s daughter, Margaret Douglas, a beloved niece of Henry VIII and lifelong friend of Henry’s daughter, Mary (later Queen Mary I), spent much of her later life and would eventually die in poverty. Had it not been for her secret union with Lord Thomas Howard, the uncle of Anne Boleyn, the younger Margaret would have been likely to inherit the English throne, after Henry declared his own daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, bastards. The streets were developed from the 1830s, with the exception of Tudor Court, which was built in the 1950s.
