The Duke of Albany arrived from France as Governor of Scotland and immediately clashed with the Earl of Angus (Archibald Douglas), who controlled the queen mother Margaret Tudor and through her the young James V. Albany brought French troops and confronted the Douglas faction at Edinburgh. Angus backed down without a fight but the confrontation established the factional division between the pro-French Albany party and the pro-English Douglas faction that would dominate Scottish politics for a decade.
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