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| Keywords: james v jamesv king of scotland kingofscotland scottish royalty scottishroyalty portrait mary queen of scots maryqueenofscots margaret tudor margarettudor tudors scotland Phillip Mould: In the year following James's birth his father James IV of Scotland was killed at the Battle of Flodden, and from then until he finally secured his personal power in 1528 his life was the frightening and constrained existence of Kings in their minority traded between contesting regents. As monarch he revived the Auld Alliance with France and married Madeline de Valois, the daughter or Francis I of France and then following her death Mary of Guise, by whom he had a daughter Mary who would succeed to the throne after him. His two sons James and Arthur died in infancy...To him are attributed the words when he was told his daughter had been born, speaking of the Stuart dynasty: ''It began with a lass and it will end with a lass.'' Hi daughter was not of course the last of the Stuarts, but his words were taken as prophetic when Queen Anne of Great Britain became the last ruling Stuart. Phillip Mould: In the year following James's birth his father James IV of Scotland was killed at the Battle of Flodden, and from then until he finally secured his personal power in 1528 his life was the frightening and constrained existence of Kings in their minority traded between contesting regents. As monarch he revived the Auld Alliance with France and married Madeline de Valois, the daughter or Francis I of France and then following her death Mary of Guise, by whom he had a daughter Mary who would succeed to the throne after him. His two sons James and Arthur died in infancy...To him are attributed the words when he was told his daughter had been born, speaking of the Stuart dynasty: ''It began with a lass and it will end with a lass.'' Hi daughter was not of course the last of the Stuarts, but his words were taken as prophetic when Queen Anne of Great Britain became the last ruling Stuart. | ||||
