Darnley

[dahrn-lee]

noun

1. Lord Henry Stewart or Stuart, 1545–67, Scottish nobleman: second husband of Mary Queen of Scots (father of James I of England).

Darnley

/ ˈdɑːnlɪ /

noun

1. Lord. title of Henry Stuart (or Stewart ). 1545–67, Scottish nobleman; second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots and father of James I of England. After murdering his wife's secretary, Rizzio (1566), he was himself assassinated (1567)

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McCardle grew up in the city's Darnley area and planted the seeds of his future success by becoming involved in youth theatre as an early age.

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A number of branches on the Darnley Sycamore – said to be where Mary Stuart nursed Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley back to health after a long illness – were blown off during high winds.

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The duo shared the screen in Josie Rourke’s 2018 historical drama “Mary Queen of Scots”: Ronan as the titular royal and Lowden as her cousin and second husband, Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley.

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In the later “Darnley Portrait,” from around 1575, her red hair is gathered under a pearl diadem, and her sunken cheeks and narrowed eyes suggest a monarch sure of her rule.

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Mary's son, James, had been born five days before, and although there is no question that he was Darnley's son, her relationship with her husband had now completely broken down thanks to his involvement in the murder of her secretary David Riccio the previous March.

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