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2 unusual facts about Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley


Henry Stuart

Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, King Consort of Scotland, cousin and second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, father of James VI of Scotland

The Queen's Palaces

Her disastrous marriage to Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, the murder of her private secretary David Rizzio and a year later the mysterious death of Darnley.


Archibald Douglas, Parson of Douglas

But the husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, secured his return to Scotland, where Douglas then successfully negotiated the pardons of the other conspirators, gazetted on 25 December 1566.

Clan Lennox

Lennox District tartan: The Lennox District tartan was reproduced from two known copies of a lost portrait dating from the sixteenth century, which was claimed to be of the Countess of Lennox (mother of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley who married Mary, Queen of Scots).

Gravesend West railway station

The official opening of the station to public traffic on Monday 10 May 1886 was marked by the protest of local landowner Lord Darnley who barricaded Stuart Road in protest against the LCDR's right to use his roads in Gravesend.

Henry Stuart

Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, elder brother of Charles I of England and Prince of Wales from 1603 to 1612

Henry Benedict Stuart, known as Cardinal Duke of York and King Henry IX

Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, Protestant younger brother of Charles II and James II of England

Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester

During the debates among Republican army leaders Oliver Cromwell and Henry Ireton about what kind of regime should succeed the now abolished rule of Charles I, it was briefly suggested that the young prince might be placed on the throne, and made to govern as the kind of limited, constitutional monarch that Parliament wanted.

John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox

Through his son Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox, Stewart was the great-great-great-grandfather of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, husband of his first cousin Mary, Queen of Scots and father of James VI, King of Scotland, who became James I, King of England.

John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox (b. bef. 1430, d. 8 Jul/11 Sep 1495) was known as Lord Darnley and later as the Earl of Lennox.


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