My Sunday is now complete. Another great video. Love from Lancashire 👌😊👑

Thank you for sharing your content it helps me understand the period of great interest too me.

Enjoyed this. It would have been good to see the facial reconstruction of the skull. Darnley sounds like a right piece of work. I think it was the historian David Starkey who said " royal blood flowed in his veins, and so did a lot of whiskey".

I have visited Holyrood Palace and Holyrood Abbey several times over the years. Both of the sites are very very beautiful and very very interesting.

His grandmother was PRINCESS Margaret Tudor not LADY. Nevertheless, very enjoyable video

Thank you so much for this great video. I've learned so many new things, about this poor guy's body. I absolutely love the fact, that you show us pictures. Have a nice summer, I will watch more of your videos, and subscribe.

I absolutely love this channel! Hello from the south in the U.S. 🙋‍♀️

Went to the site where Kirk O Field was in Edinburgh. There’s no plaque but some houses.

Darnley sounds like what we’d call a narcissist now.

I never understood why people take out their anger on a corpse.

I believe Elizabeth knew what Darnley was like and sent him there knowing he would woo Mary. Knowing Darnleys character it’s likely that Elizabeth’s men murdered him too further ruining Mary’s reputation.

Marrying Darnley was truly a poor choice for Mary. He was really a louse.

I feel that Lord Ruthvwn's involvement in Rizzio's murder should have been mentioned and discussed the circumstances that had Mary and Darnley fled together afterwards.

Ooo, if I were queen and he raised hands... back to Lizzie, or maybe some time locked up in Stirling or the Tollbooth!

Very very interesting video.

Mary made poor decisions repeatedly.

Lord Henry Darnley was also very close to the Scottish Throne through being GrGr grandson of James II of Scotland and was related to Queen Mary on both sides, first cousin on his mother's side who was aunt of Queen Mary. Both were grandchildren of Queen Margaret Tudor with Queen Mary being the senior of both lines. Indeed the Hamilton s and the Stewarts were very closely related with the Hamiltons being senior claim to the lennox Stewarts but behind Queen Mary's line which was the senior Stewart line. Politically the marriage of MWOS and LD was sound and correct personality it was a disaster for both as LD was simply unfit for the rule of Consort. Queen Mary has for too often been labelled as foolish and not up to the job often compared to Elizabeth Tudor but history fails to point out the difficulties that Queen Mary encountered which were totally different from England. In Scotland the royal word was often ignored the nobles were unruly and regularly betrayed their country and Queen for personal gain and English gold in pay of the English crown. Queen Mary had to battle on on her own with no army to call on unlike in England. The religious settlement was diffirent from England. Queen Mary whilst Catholic accepted the protestant reformation she found on arrival in Scotland. . No one unlike in England where she and many Catholics were persecuted and often murdered. Contrary to the wide miss information. The Scottish People rose to Queen Mary's support when the treacherous nobility rebelled against her marriage to. Darnley and were chased out if Scotland to England where Elizabeth Tudor having given financial support to them, gave them sanctuary in England and were allowed to leave unlike Queen Mary who received very different treatment fron Elizabeth Tudor and ultimately murdered her..again after Rizzio was murdered the Scottish people rose in her favour when Queen Mary having cleverly separated Darnley from the treacherous lords who were holding her captive escaped and returned to Edinburgh 10 days later at head of 10,000 army, whilst 6 months pregnant. the treacherous nobility again fled to and received safety in England.. When Darnley was murdered Two witness heard Darnley plead for his life saying pity me kinsmen it was the Douglas's who murdered Darnley not bothwell as history had us believe. The protestant Lords were quilty of Darnley murder not Queen Mary. Yes Queen Mary married Bothwell at the behest of the nobility who signed the Ainslie bind petitioning Queen Mary to marry Bothwell fior the good n weal of the realm. Unfortunately Queen Mary was against a hard rock and deep blue see. Bothwell had been found innocent of Darnleys s murder a point often ignored.. Scotland was not an easy kingdom to rule, Queen Mary's sex and religion were against her but she had proven she was capable of ruling independently of the nobility which they did not like. When the treacherous nobility again rebelled after Queen Mary had married Bothwell. It was because he was a strong able Consort for Queen Mary who would have eliminated them and been a very strong defender of the crown which they did not want. Its very strange having risen against Bothwell not Queen Mary whio they promised to serve honour and accept her as Queen if she parted from Bothwell, who they claimed they were rescuing her from. Bothwell was allowed to leave Carberry field but Queen Mary was subjected to insults humiliation and a rabble in sighted by that bigot and hypocrite John Knox. Queen Mary was moved late at night from Holyrood house not because they feared for her life as they claimed but because the Edinburgh mob had regained sanity and were demanding to see their Queen as they had realised things were not as they had been lead to believe. The Scottish people again rose to Queen Mary when sbe escaped Lochleven but sadly lost the battle of langside in 1568.had Queen Mary been able to return to Scotland there is every reason the Scottish people again would have rallied to their Queen. Darnley was a nasty stupid person who was beaten at his own n game by better traitors. Unfortunately he dragged Queen Mary down with him. If only Darnley had the brains his blood and lineage demanded and deserved he could have been a Great Consort to Queen Mary who would have had a long and happy reign and successfully acquired the English crown of which she was the legitimate and rightful processor of.

I have walked the gallery at Holyrood.

Bittersweet, my heart

henry stuart was also the king consort, as husband to the queen regnant of scots... his major ambition was to become the king matrimonial, as the de facto ruler...not as just a husband of the ruler..., as much owing for his tudor blood as his stuart ... as for comparisons to his cousin Elizabeth I & Mary stuart I.... robert dudley wife mysterious death an being the favourite , was a scandal... can you imagine , queen elizabeth I being brought before a court, for actions or lack of her favourite, earl robert dudley...... to the scottish courts or parliment.... for political reasons, and the cecily dynasty... after plots and rebellions, elizabeth I was cautious..., the very long house arrest for years...was part of that... scotland, had a history of many regents of clergy & nobility...

Bring Mary and James 1V home to Holyrood Abbey.

Mary was no angel, and Darnley didn't have much of a chance to be nasty to her, in the period after the murder of Rizzio. She hated him. He was send away, without money, he had to beg very often, and she told the nobles to ignore him, and not help him. He was alone, isolated, and frustrated. I don't think he was an angel too, because he planned the murder of Rizzio, even though Mary completely disregarded his confession, and changed the story, maybe for the sake of herself, that he was innocent. She knew he wasn't, and then started planning a revenge. First she poisoned him, but even though she gave quite a lot, he wasn't much deformed, as she wrote to Boswell. Then, in cold winter she take the post to his bedside, at his father's. She never saw the old Earl, but staid close to Darnley, watching when he was going to die. Then Boswell was ordered to get a lodging. He got one close to an abandoned house of the Hamilton's, and where thieves, beggars, loose women, reign, or rather a poor area, because the rich nobles left that area. Not exactly a cozy place to recover. Badly planned murder, between Mary, Boswell, the Earl of Argyle, and some other nobles, plus those of the meaner sort, who got hanged.

Mary was no daffodil herself.

What a load of English crap. Darnley was murdered by the Lords of the congredation, so to remove Mary because she stuck by her faith..