HST 532 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Margaret Tudor, David Rizzio, Elizabethan Era
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Moray: stated that the government would remain protestant, but she could remain privately. Catholic: but all changed 4 years later with her disastrous marriage to her 20-year-old cousin henry, lord. English throne that mary has: mary abandoned her alliance with the protestant lords, publicly displayed her attachment to. In 1566, darnley fell ill and mary sent him to kirk o" field to recover. Mary had publicly expressed a wish that darnley was dead, and she had hinted that he wouldn"t return from kirk o" field this makes her a leading suspect. The fall of mary, queen of scots: darnley murdered and the house blown up by a gang of scottish lords led by the earl of bothwell. Who was tried for darnley"s murder, but acquitted. Immediately after bothwell and mary went to live together in dunbar (controversy as to whether this was voluntary or not)