The Mysterious Murder of Lord Darnley

The murder of Lord Darnley is a "whodunit" for the centuries that, arguably, played a key part in the destruction of Mary, Queen of Scots - this is the topic we are looking at today...

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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Portrait of Matthew Stuart, 4th Earl of Lennox by an unknown artist (16th century). Held by the National Trust.

Portrait of Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, attributed to Nicholas Hilliard (1575). Held by the Rijksmuseum.

Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots by François Clouet (c.1558-1560). Held by the Royal Collection.

Francis II, King of France, and his wife, Mary Stuart, Queen of France and Scotland by an unknown artist, after François Clouet. Miniature taken from Catherine de' Medici's Book of Hours, BnF, NAL 83, folio 154 v. Held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Portrait of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, as a child by Hans Eworth (1555). Held by Scottish National Gallery.

Portrait of Catherine de' Medici and her children from the workshop of François Clouet (1561). On display at Strawberry Hill House.

Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots in “white mourning” by François Clouet (c.1559-1560). Held by the Royal Collection.

Portrait of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, age 17, and his brother Lord Charles Stuart (later 5th Earl of Lennox), age 6 by Hans Eworth (1563). Held by the Royal Collection.

Portrait of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, by an unknown artist (c.1564). Held by National Galleries of Scotland.

Joint portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her second husband Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, parents of King James VI of Scotland, later King James I of England by an unknown artist (16th century). Held by the National Trust, at Hardwick Hall.

Portrait of a Man known as David Rizzio by an unknown artist (c.1620). Held in the Royal Collection and displayed at Holyrood Palace.

The Murder of Rizzio, by John Opie (1787). Held by the Guildhall Art Gallery.

Portrait of King James I of England and VI of Scotland as a boy, by an unknown artist (late 16th century, based on a work of 1574). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

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). Original at the National Archives of the UK.

Portrait of James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, by an unknown artist (1566). Held by the Scottish National Gallery.


Quoted texts:

Elaine Finnie Greig , ODNB entry on Lord Darnley

John Guy, quoted by Vanity Fair (Dec 2018)

Julian Goodare, ODNB entry on Mary, Queen of Scots

Also consulted, were:

Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online