The Duke's reply was "My friends, return to Scotland and bring her here, she is all I desire, and I will have no other; your clever women do more harm than good".

The wedding took place in the same year as he succeeded his father as he would have needed to secure an heir for the Duchy.

Isabella however refused and was able to resist all pressure,[6] saying that she was happy and popular in Brittany and was in any case too frail to travel.

[6] The personal prayer book known as the Hours of Isabella Stuart is held at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and was presented to her by her husband Francis I of Brittany after their marriage.

[3] The book was reilluminated for Isabella[5] in two stages to include images of the Scottish princess in heraldic dress (the ermine of Brittany and the lion of Scotland) and her own coat of arms.