Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott

Lady Margaret Scott was born at Dalkeith Palace in 1846, the second daughter of Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch, a prominent Scottish peer, politician and landowner, and his wife Lady Charlotte Thynne, daughter of the 2nd Marquess of Bath and Hon.

As for herself, Lady Margaret, who was a widow from 1905 and suffering from arthritis, died on 5 February 1918 of Spanish flu.

[citation needed] Lady Margaret is the subject of Sarah, Duchess of York's 2021 historical-fiction romance novel Her Heart for a Compass.

In the novel, she is estranged from her family and is sent to Powerscourt in Ireland, then travels to New York before ultimately wedding Lochiel.

[5] Sarah is the great-grandniece of Lady Margaret through her nephew Lord Herbert Scott.