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  1. Mar 25, 2022 · Drawing of the Kirk o' Field after the murder of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. The plan was drawn for Cecil [William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley] shortly after the murder by an unknown artist (1567...

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  2. Jan 18, 2022 · It happened in the centre of Edinburgh, in a huge explosion clearly intended to kill Henry, Lo... The most famous of Scottish assassinations took place in 1567.

  3. Feb 9, 2019 · On 10th February 1567, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, was murdered.

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  4. Feb 10, 2019 · On 10th February 1567, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, was murdered at Kirk o'Field in Edinburgh. In today's video, I tell you what happened.

    • The Sonnets
    • The Marriage Contracts
    • The Casket Letters

    John Guy writes of how the sonnets found in the casket "were said to be Mary's own reflections on her adultery"3 with Bothwell and proof "that her consuming passion for Bothwell gave her a powerful motive for murder."4 However, Guy points out that they are highly unlikely to be genuine as "they are extremely clumsy and would pass only with the grea...

    One of the marriage contracts from the silver casket was said to be dated 5th April 1567 "at Seton", so over a month before Mary and Bothwell's marriage, but Guy points out that this is a "blatant forgery" because the wording of the contract included "extracts from the Ainslie's Tavern bond"7, a document which was produced after the gathering of th...

    Letters 1 and 2, "the short Glasgow Letter" and "the long Glasgow letter" were the most damning and the second letter, if genuine, was proof that Mary was Bothwell's lover before their marriage and that she had been involved in Darnley's murder. Letter 2 contained "seemingly graphic allusions to the murder plot... interspersed with its author's pro...

  5. Feb 10, 2022 · Following a large explosion at Kirk o’ Field outside Edinburgh at two o’clock on the morning of 10 February 1567, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, was found dead in a nearby garden. Darnley is one of the most notorious figures in Scottish history.

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  7. Feb 9, 2017 · Although Lord Darnley died that evening, his body was found the next morning in the orchard outside the lodging: dressed only in his nightshirt, his body had no signs of injuries from the...

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