Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley not together in early 1545 and a letter of March 1566, from Mary Queen of Scots, indicates Darnley was then nineteen years old. Therefore the date 1546 would seem probable. A descendant of both James II of Scotland and Henry VII of England, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, was heir to two royal houses, the House of Stuart and the House of Tudor, thus he had claim to both the Scottish and English thrones, a claim that may have cost him his life. In 1545, his father, Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox was found guilty of treason in Scotland for
Edward Bligh, 5th Earl of Darnley was buried at Cobham. He was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son, John. His wife, "Emma, Dowager Countess of Darnley", died on 15 March 1884. Edward Bligh, 5th Earl of Darnley Edward Bligh, 5th Earl of Darnley, (25 February 1795 – 12 February 1835), styled Lord Clifton until 1831, was a British peer and politician. Darnley was the second but eldest surviving son of John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley, and Elizabeth Brownlow, 3rd daughter of the Rt Hon. William Brownlow. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating on 22 October 1812, where he