Excerpt from Life of the Princess Margaret, Queen of Scotland 1070-1093, Vol. 1 The accompanying narrative of the Life of Queen Margaret will be interesting to all students of history as being a subject which seldom attracts the attention of the historian. The Life of Queen Margaret was a wonderful life during the twenty-three years she was Queen of Scotland; but the records of it are meagre and disappointing. We are not altogether surprised at this, as in that primitive age, the eleventh century, both King and people were unable to read or write. These offices were performed by the Monks, until civilization was more developed; but in the meantime Queen Margaret's life and administration have, in the eyes of posterity, greatly suffered for want of material. It is evident that the Queen's was a saintly life, full of benevolent and good deeds, while her knowledge of the Scriptures was conspicuous in many of her administrative acts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.