Mary, Queen of Scots, wrote to the French ambassador Michel de Castelnau that she had hoped "Lady Livingstone" would come to England and join her household instead of marrying.
[4] Margaret was then a gentlewoman in the households of Anna of Denmark at Dunfermline Palace and Prince Henry at Stirling Castle.
The money lender's final inventory was compiled after Livingstone's marriage, and she was recorded as "Lady Orkney".
James VI was present at the banquet until he was called away to see his new-born child at Dunfermline, Princess Elizabeth.
She disputed monies owed to Walter Cranstoun, the steward of the Bellenden lands she held as a widow in "conjunct fie".