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Article: New book clears Mary of Darnley murder
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- February 27, 2003
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IT HAS remained one of Scotland's most famous murder mysteries
that has baffled historians for nearly 450 years, but a new book
claims to have solved the crime.
The body of Mary Queen of Scots' second husband, Lord Darnley, was
found in the early hours of 10 February, 1567 after an explosion at
his Kirk o'Field house that was felt across Edinburgh. He was
discovered suffocated next to his valet in a nearby garden.
After the breakdown of their marriage and Mary's subsequent
betrothal to the Earl of Bothwell, history has tended to implicate
Mary in the murder, but a new book which re-examines evidence of the
time argues she was not to blame.
Futhermore, Alison Weir, the historian, who has ...