Stewart of Darnley Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus. Born in England and raised at the court of her uncle Henry VIII, Margaret was Henry's officially recognized heir between the disgrace of Anne Boleyn and the birth of the future Edward VI. In 1565 Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley married his cousin Mary Queen of Scots, like him a descendant of Margaret Tudor and Henry VII. Mary's descent from Margaret Tudor's first marriage to James IV of Scots also placed her in line for the English throne, but many argued that Margaret Douglas's claim was superior as Margaret and her sons Henry Stuart, Lord
John Bligh, 6th Earl of Darnley John Bligh, 6th Earl of Darnley John Stuart Bligh, 6th Earl of Darnley (16 April 1827 – 14 December 1896), styled Lord Clifton from 1831 to 1835, was a British peer. The eldest son of Edward Bligh, 5th Earl of Darnley, he succeeded his father in the earldom in 1835. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Kent on 3 September 1847. Darnley matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 15 May 1845 and received his B.A. in 1848 and his M.A. in 1869. On 24 July 1848, he was commissioned captain of the Cobham Troop of the West Kent Yeomanry.