Example sentences for: darnley

How can you use “darnley” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Its strong stone walls, which survived both fires in the 16th century, sheltered rooms that were occupied by Mary Stuart and her second husband, Lord Darnley, in the 1560s.

  • Within a year, however, Darnley was murdered, and Mary immediately immersed herself in controversy by marrying the Earl of Bothwell, the chief suspect.

  • In 1565 she married her young cousin Henry, Lord Darnley, much to the chagrin of Elizabeth (Darnley was a grandson of Margaret Tudor and thus also had a claim to the English throne).

  • Queen Victoria arranged for the bones of David II, James II, James V, and Lord Darnley to be re-interred in a common tomb.

  • It is also where her secretary, David Rizzio, was left to bleed to death after being stabbed by Lord Darnley and his cronies; a bronze plaque marks the spot.


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