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December 6, 2018. As biographer Antonia Fraser explains, Mary’s story is one of “murder, sex, pathos, religion and unsuitable lovers" Liam Daniel/Focus Features. Mary, Queen of Scots,...
On this day in history, 9th March 1566, David Rizzio (Riccio), the private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, was stabbed to death in front of a heavily pregnant Queen Mary. But who was David Rizzio and what led to his murder?
After Darnley orchestrated the murder of Mary's Italian secretary and close friend, David Rizzio, their marriage soured. In February 1567, Darnley's residence was destroyed by an explosion, and he was found murdered in the nearby garden.
In 1566 a group of nobles murdered Mary’s secretary David Riccio in front of her eyes while she was heavily pregnant. Later that year she gave birth to her only child, James, at Edinburgh Castle. In 1567, Darnley was murdered. Mary soon outraged the Scottish nobility by marrying the Earl of Bothwell, one of the men suspected of his ...
1587. Mary, Queen of Scots beheaded. Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images. After 19 years of imprisonment, Mary, Queen of Scots is beheaded at...
Mary, Queen of Scots, was barely one week old when she succeeded to the throne in 1542. The murder 25 years later of Henry Lord Darnley, her consort and the father of the infant who would become King James I of England and James VI of Scotland, remains one of history's most notorious unsolved crimes.
This lesson allows students to explore three crucial sources about the murder of Lord Darnley the husband of Mary Queen of Scots. The first source is a plan of the murder scene at Kirk o’...
