| Mary and Darnley | |
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| Real Names: | Mary Stuart Henry Darnley |
| Status: | Over, ended in Darnley's death |
| Relationship: | |
| Length of Relationship: |
A year |
| Affiliates: | |
| First Appearance: | Playing With Fire |
| Last Appearance: | All It Cost Her |
| GALLERY | |
- "I made you King. But we will never be equals."
- —Queen Mary
History[]
Early History[]
Lady Keira and Lord Darnley want to get married. However, Keira is promised to Lord White by her family. When Lord Darnley is summoned to English Court by Queen Elizabeth she brokers a deal with him. [1]
Lord Darnley promises not to marry Queen Mary of Scotland, and in return, Queen Elizabeth will pay off Keira's dowry to her family so she and Lord Darnley can marry. However before the sum could be paid in secret by a single horseman, Lord Narcisse arranged his murder. [2]
Lord Darnley stops into visit Keira on his way to Scotland with his mother, Lady Lennox. He promises he'll return for her in a week and they will meet at their special place. Before he returns, Keira receives a letter from him, breaking things off, so she marries Lord White. [2] [3]
Season 4[]
Mary Stuart and James Stuart recieved another letter from "Loyal Watchman" warning of Lord Darnley's. Mary told her brother to find out who he was, and start with John Knox. He had schemed with letters before, and the outcome cost Lola her life. James agrees to being up the matter with Emily Knox. [4] Mary and Darnley talk about his former relationship with Lady Keira, and Queen Mary accuses him of having an affair. He denies it, informing her she is already married to Lord White. [5] Of the arriving guest to witness Mary and Darnley's Catholic wedding, few are as important as Lucrezia de' Medici. She lends legitimacy and strength both to Queen Mary's Scottish rule and Queen Mary and Lord Darnley's joint claims to the English Throne. However, after Lord Darnley jokingly insulted King Francis, Lucrezia withdrew her support and set sail for the following day back to Florence. Mary was very upset over this, because if the Duchess left, she took her support and the promise of funding with her. Lucrezia agreed to reconsider if she was given the lands belonging to Lord Theodore Davies. The lands were quite valuable, and come with a title, The Earldom of Menteith. Only with this exchange would she continue supporting Mary's rule. After a day of misadventures, Queen Mary and Lord Bothwell were able to acquiring the Davies Estate' papers. With that, Lucrezia was pleased to continue the alliance between Florence and Scotland. Meanwhile, Lady Keira was sick and weak with fever, an later died after being stuck by a cart in Scotland, after James Stuart forced her to her feet, and back to England on Mary's behalf. [6] John Knox had been corresponding with Lord White after Lady Keira's passing. Informing him that his late wife was having an affair with Lord Darnley, and advised White on the opportunity to avenge his wife's honor. Via a secret meeting, meaning Darnley would be unprotected and away from the castle. Lord White was already en route to Scotland to murder the future King before Mary Stuart could marry him. James Stuart went ahead and stopped him at the border crossings just before dawn. [7] Mary Stuart tells Greer she is pregnant with King Darnley's child. Telling her, only Darnley knows, and she's also told James Stuart before he left. Greer Apologies for being hard on Mary about James. Mary tells her it's alright. In trying to protect her throne, she put her brother in a dangerous position that ended with his banishment. Mary and Darnley are talking about Lord Bothwell. The man who despises Darnley, and Mary invited him to Court. Mary tells him, after James left she was upset, and needed someone she could trust. [8] Lord Ruthven and Darnley were both involved, and Ruthven even lead the murder of David Rizzio in place of the missing Lord Bothwell in front of the very pregnant Queen Mary. [9] The next morning, James Stuart and his men took back the castle. For the crimes of high treason and insurrection against the crown, Lord Ruthven was sentenced to death, by Queen Mary. [10] |
Quotes[]
Queen Mary: Are you saying that we should marry?
Lord Darnley: Would it be the worst thing? [11]
(To Lord Darnley)
Queen Mary: Although I am curious. Have you already named our children? Or did you leave at least that part for me?
James Stuart: Well, I hope one of them will be called James. After our father. [11]
Lord Darnley: I am an ambitious man. And if this is my one chance at King, I will take it. And if I am King for only as long as you live, then I say long live the Queen. [11]
Lord Darnley: I do have a first name, you know. It's Henry.
Queen Mary: Darnley...
Lord Darnley: Darnley it is, then. [12]
Queen Mary: I've asked my brother James to help train you for your fight with Lord Taylor.
Lord Darnley: The man who lost to Taylor three times is going to teach me? [12]
Lord Darnley: I let you win that race.
Queen Mary: Oh really, Lord Darnley? I was unaware that your crushing defeat was an act of charity. [13]
Lord Darnley: How dare you, didn't you notice that I defied the Queen of England for you?!
Queen Mary: Oh, you enjoyed it.
Lord Darnley: I did! [13]
Lord Darnley: I want you to tell me why you keep pushing me away. I'm going to be your husband!
Queen Mary: I had a husband! And I loved him and he was murdered in cold blood before my eyes. [13]
Queen Mary: As King and Queen, our lives will always be in peril.
Lord Darnley: We're going to be in danger no matter whether we're together or not. Because of who we are, Mary. Because of our blood.
Queen Mary: Elizabeth will keep coming after us.
Lord Darnley: Let her come! Let the danger come! [13]
Queen Mary: You will be my husband in name only. And we will never be happy. And I will never forgive you. [14]
Queen Mary: I want to forgive, and I want forgiveness. I want to start anew.
Lord Darnley: And I want to be a better man. I do. But what are the odds of that? [15]
King Darnley: Mary! I'm glad you've come! What do you think?
Queen Mary: Well, you commissioned it for your coronation, it only needs to please your ear. [16]
Queen Mary: I had hoped that our marriage would be a partnership in every way. But with your drinking, your cheating, your blind ambition-
King Darnley: I am trying to be better!
Queen Mary: Then try harder. [16]
Queen Mary: She would know that you were behind it, as well.
King Darnley: Would she? If I confirmed your efforts to destroy her, allowing her to justifiably come after you, would she care? [8]
King Darnley: I will be a true king. And we will finally be equals.
Queen Mary: I made you King. But we will never be equals. [8]
Queen Mary: You can't expect everyone to be glad you are back at court, Darnley. Some of us know you. [17]
Queen Mary: We are married because I couldn't take England without you. What makes you think that you can take England without me? [9]
Notes[]
- Mary had already married once, and it was Prince Francis. [18]
- Francis and Mary agreed that if they had children, they would name them 'Anne' and 'James'. [19]
- Mary and Darnley both know how to play golf. [11]
- Darnley started a house fire and rescued a child from it to make himself look like a hero. [11]
- Mary found out soon after from her Loyal Watchman.
- Darnley fought Lord Taylor, a renowed boxing champion, in order to earn the respect of the nobles and be able to go ahead with his engagement to Mary. [12]
- Mary and Darnley consummated their engagment soon after agreeing to it. [13]
- Mary discovered she was pregnant with Darnley's child but kept it a secret for a while. [15]
- Mary had her second wedding to Lord Darnley. [15]
Historical Notes[]
- Mary was also known as Mary I of Scotland or Mary, Queen of Scots.
- Lord Darnley's full name was Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.
- Lord Lennox was Lord Darnley's father. He was second cousins once removed to King James V, and (at best) third in line of succession for the Scottish Crown. He spent most of his youth in exile in England, but returned to Scotland to assert his claim to the line of succession when James V died in 1542.
- Lord Darnley does have Tudor blood in him, through his mother Lady Lennox.
- Mary had briefly met her English-born first cousin Lord Darnley in February 1561 when she was in mourning for King Francis II. Darnley's parents, Lord and Lady Lennox, who were Scottish aristocrats as well as English landowners, had sent him to France ostensibly to extend their condolences while hoping for a potential match between the two.
- Mary returned to Scotland after Francis II's death when she was 18.
- Their son's godparents were Charles IX of France and Elizabeth I of England.
- They conceived a child by October 1565, not in October 1561 like in the show.
- By March 1566, Darnley had entered into a secret conspiracy with Protestant lords, including the nobles who had rebelled against Mary in the Chaseabout Raid.
- Mary was 7 months pregnant when she was held at gun-point while David Rizzio was stabbed 56 times by King Darnley and his friends.
Appearances[]
| Season Four | ||||||||||
| With Friends Like These | A Grain of Deception | Leaps of Faith | Playing With Fire | Highland Games | Love & Death | Hanging Swords | Uncharted Waters | |||
| Pulling Strings | A Better Man | Dead of Night | The Shakedown | Coup de Grace | A Bride. A Box. A Body. | Blood in the Water | All It Cost Her | |||
Related Pages[]
Pages related to Mary and Darnley are the following:
• Queen Mary • King Darnley
• Mary and Darnley's Wedding • King Darnley's Coronation