With the capture of Donald Dubh (1506) the Highlanders became for the while comparatively quiescent; under Lennox and Argyll they suffered in the defeat of Flodden.
From 1497 to 1503 Henry VII.

was negotiating for the marriage of James to his daughter Margaret Tudor; the marriage was celebrated on August 8, 1503, and a century later the great grandson of Margaret, James VI.

came to the English throne.

But marriage does not make friendship.

There had existed since 1491 a secret alliance by which Scotland was bound to defend France if attacked by England.