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
Florence Bligh, Countess of Darnley believe, from that description and other records, that more than one "Ashes urn" came into being over time, the one she gave to the MCC after her husband's death in 1927 being of terracotta, not apparently silvered.) She and Bligh were married in St. Mary's Church, Sunbury, with the reception held at Rupertswood, near Melbourne, Australia on 9 February 1884. In 1900, when her husband succeeded to the title of Earl of Darnley, she became Countess of Darnley. In 1902 she co-wrote, with Randolph Hodgson, a romantic novel titled "Elma Trevor". In the novel, the eponymous heroine, "loved by one