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
Florence Bligh, Countess of Darnley Florence Bligh, Countess of Darnley Florence Rose Bligh (née Morphy), Countess of Darnley, DBE (c. 186030 August 1944) was the Australian-born wife of Ivo Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley. Florence Morphy was born in Victoria, daughter of John Stephen Morphy, sometime police magistrate at Beechworth, who died in 1861. She met Ivo Bligh at Rupertswood when he captained the English cricket team that visited Australia in 1882-83. According to one report, she was the leader of the Melbourne ladies who presented Bligh with "a tiny silver urn, containing what they termed 'the ashes of Australian cricket.'" (There is reason to