Mary, Queen of Scots, Cleared of Murdering Her Husband – Over 400 Years Later

The following teaser is from the September 25, 2105 edition of DailyMail.com:

Mary Queen of Scots, depicted here around 1565.
Mary Queen of Scots, depicted here around 1565.

Mary, Queen of Scots has been cleared of any involvement in the notorious murder of her husband, more than four centuries after the unsolved crime took place.

The rebel queen, who plotted against Elizabeth I, has long been suspected of bringing about the death of Lord Darnley, her royal consort who himself had royal blood.

Their marriage had been under serious strain since they wed in 1565, and just two years later he and his squire were found dead in an orchard in Kirk o’Field, Edinburgh.

Not long before the bodies were discovered, an explosion had rocked Lord Darnley’s home, throwing even more confusion over the deaths, which are believed to have been carried out by suffocation.

However, a panel assembled by the Royal Society of Edinburgh was convened this week and has begun considering the crime with modern investigative methods – and has concluded that Mary’s hands are clean.

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About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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