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What If James IV and Margaret Tudor Left No Living Child?
There are big “what-ifs” in history… and then there are the ones that quietly change everything.
In this episode, we ask: What if Margaret Tudor had no surviving children with James IV?
When James IV was killed at Flodden in 1513, Scotland did not just lose a king - it faced political instability, factional rivalry, and the urgent question of succession. But what if there had been no infant James V? No Tudor heir to carry the Stewart line forward?
Who were the potential heirs to the Scottish throne at that moment? We look at the rival branches of the Stewart family, the strength of dynastic…
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