Meet the foolish wastrel who coveted the crown of Mary, Queen of Scots
Darnley of Lennox', 1567, . Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany , was king consort of Scotland from 1565 until his murder at Kirk o' Field in 1567. From The Connoisseur Vol XXXI. [Otto Limited, London, 1911]. Artist
At that point in exile, Moray himself seemed to have made a major misjudgement. Rather than get succour from Queen Elizabeth, instead he got a public ticking off for daring to rebel against Mary – Elizabeth and her advisers realised that it was not a good look for any queen to be challenged, hence the vehemence of her denouncement of Moray.
Another person who was having second thoughts was Darnley’s own father, the Earl of Lennox, who tired of his son’s excesses, made his excuses, and left the Court. Lennox may also have noted the increasing influence of two men whose interests were against his – James Douglas, the 4th Earl of Morton and James Hepburn, the 4th Earl of Bothwell.
The other plotters may have been trying, as they said, to uphold the Protestant religion in the face of a Catholic resurgence aided and abetted by Rizzio – a spy for the Vatican? – but Darnley’s motivation came from his new-found distaste for his wife and his ambition to be the monarch. The plotters bonded together and, though they all never signed an actual written bond, which was the usual way of doing this sort of thing in those times, as we shall see, Darnley himself signed articles to give comfort to his fellow plotters. Basically, he promised that there would be no comeback on them, and that is the evidence of his vile involvement.
Now that may have been a forgery to show how Darnley really did play a leading part in the plot, but it has long been accepted as genuine, as it has the ring of truth and was just the sort of thing that Darnley would say to get people to do his dirty work.
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