In July 1559 Margaret Harington left England with her cousin Jane Dormer wife of Gómez Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba, 1st Duke of Feria, travelling to Mechelen and to Amboise in France,[1] where Mary, Queen of Scots gave a jewel to Dormer,[2] and then remained in the Feria household in Madrid.
In August 1568, William Harington brought a letter from the Duchess of Feria to Elizabeth I.
[3] Margaret Harington married don Benito de Cisneros, with a dowry from the Countess of Feria of 20,000 ducats.
Gustav Ungerer suggests her presence in Madrid would have connected her brother Sir John Harington with Spanish culture, and how this may have informed the perceptions of Africans by the audience of Titus Andronicus, performed at Burley-on-the Hill on 1 January 1596.
She died in Madrid in 1601 and was buried in the church of Santa Marina at Zafra, where the Countess of Feria erected a monument.