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Lady Margaret was born at Farleigh Hungerford Castle in Somerset, the only surviving daughter of the George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, and the former Isabella Neville, elder daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Anne Beauchamp, his wife, who inherited the Earldom of Warwick.

Her grandfather was killed fighting against her uncle, Edward IV of England, at the Battle of Barnet.

At that time, her father was then created Earl of Salisbury and of Warwick ; he was already Duke of Clarence.

Edward IV declared that her brother Edward should be known as Earl of Warwick as a courtesy title, but no peerage was ever created for him.