Margaret of Scotland (1045-1093) was the sister of the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Edgar Aetheling, who inherited the crown after Harold was killed at Hastings but never got to wear it. She was born in exile in Hungary but came into her own when she married Malcolm III of Scotland in 1070. She was made a saint in 1250, and her relics moved to Dunfermline Abbey. They were scattered and destroyed during the Scottish Reformation. The Jesuits later chipped in for this scrumptious marble statue which stands in the Church of the Immaculate Conception on Farm Street in London. Source.
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