History Scotland

...DAVID II AND MARGARET LOGIE

British history has had no shortage of scandalous royal marriages, and many of these remain widely discussed to this day. The same cannot be said, however, of one of the Scottish royal family’s earliest matrimonial controversies: the 14th-century union between David II – the second Bruce king as son and successor of Robert I – and his second wife, Margaret Logie.

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