Edgar Atheling, the last member of the old English royal house, fled to Scotland with his sisters including Margaret after a failed attempt to resist William the Conqueror. Malcolm III welcomed them and married Margaret -- the woman who would be canonised as Scotland's patron saint. The sheltering of the English refugees was a political act with long-term consequences: it gave Malcolm a claim to intervene in English affairs as protector of the old royal line, contributing to his later invasions of England.
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