Three Sisters, Three Queens

Usually the “errors” I've found in Gregory's books have been matters of interpretation or opinion. Not so with this one.

First, Lady Catherine Gordon (Katherine Huntley, former wife of Perkin Warbeck), was never a lady in waiting to Margaret Tudor and she never returned to Scotland. (We know she never returned to Scotland because she needed permission to leave England, which she once obtained to live in Wales with a later husband.) I suspect this error was deliberately perpetrated for the purpose of dramatic irony.

Second, and most egregiously and inexplicably to me because it's such a basic factual error, Coldstream Abbey is and was in Scotland, not England. When Margaret fled from Scotland, she was turned away in England and had to return to Scotland to find safe harbor in Coldstream.

It's truly bizarre. I read Gregory's novels because I like fanfic. Whether it's Star Trek fanfic or history fanfic, I appreciate when an author attempts to forge fragmentary and nonsensical “canon” into a coherent and logical story with consistent characters. But it aggravates me to no end when authors ignore established facts as Gregory has done here.