![]() ![]() Her youth, for she was only 18 when she returned to Scotland, increased the liveliness of her disposition. Magnusson speculates that Darnley had tried to escape just before the blast but had been intercepted by his murderer before he could flee. Curiously, he appeared not to have been killed by the explosion but by strangulation. But, in an adjoining garden beside a pear tree, townsmen found Darnley's nightgown-clad corpse. And at around 2 am the building exploded, a blast heard and felt throughout Edinburgh.Īccording to Scottish historian Magnus Magnusson, nothing was left of the building. Unknown to Darnley and perhaps unknown to Mary, miscreants had for some time been packing the cellars of Kirk o' Field with enough gunpowder to blow the structure to smithereens. Across the city, Queen Mary and the baby prince were safely ensconced at Holyrood House. For weeks he had rested there, convalescing from either smallpox or syphilis. ![]() On a Sunday morning in February 1567, Darnley lay sleeping on the upper floor of an Edinburgh house known as Kirk o' Field. Engraved by H.Robinson and published in ''Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain'',UK,1829. ![]() King consort of Scotland during 1565-1567. Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545-1567) on engraving from 1829. ![]()
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