Margaret Island

This guide to Margaret Island in Budapest follows Princess Margaret, handed over as a small child by her father King Béla IV during the Mongol invasion and raised inside a convent whose ruins still stand among the trees around you. You'll hear of the suitors she turned away, including a Bohemian king her own father tried to arrange for her, and the austere life she chose instead. It traces her family's fury at her defiance and the long line of visitors who kept coming to this island for centuries after she was gone.