Henry VIII could barely control his anger. How dare those wretched Scots
refuse his offer to marry off his own dear son, Edward, to their
Princess Mary? Where do they think they will get a better offer. No
doubt it is her mother, Marie de Guise, who is behind their refusal. A
French woman at the head of the Scottish Court! This calls for a firm
hand. "Send the army north and let them wreak havoc."
But it was a chastened English army that returned to Berwick in 1549.
Over a thousand of their number would never return. Eighteen months they
had endured behind fortress walls. They had found they were fighting not
only the Scots but the French army in their thousands as well. Nor had
they achieved their objective of capturing Mary. Instead she was safely
landed in France, poised to marry the Dauphin.