title: Royal Weddings (Shire Library)
author:  Emily Brand 
description: Emily Brand is a writer and historian with a special interest in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England. She has written widely on domestic and family life for a number of history and genealogy magazines, including publications from BBC Magazines Bristol, the Jane Austen Centre in Bath and the National Archives. She is also an author for history society London Historians, of which she has been made an honorary member.
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  [A MIDSUMMER WEDDING](part0059.html#z_TOC)
  
  May McGoldrick
  
  Chapter One
  
  Stirling Castle, Scotland
  
  Summer 1484
  
  “It’s your wedding,” the young queen said. “So why do I feel as if I’m sending
  you to the gallows?”
  
  Elizabeth Hay stood at the open window of the White Tower, looking across the
  busy courtyard toward the chapel. A hum of voices drifted up to 