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The Murder of David Rizzio by John Opie. At 8pm on the night of Saturday 9th March 1566, Lord Darnley and a large group of conspirators (around 80 men) made their way through the Palace of Holyroodhouse to the Queen's supper chamber where she was enjoying a meal with Rizzio and some other friends.
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Murder The Murder of Rizzio, 1787, by John Opie. Jealousy precipitated Rizzio's murder in the Queen's supper chamber in the Palace of Holyroodhouse at 8 o'clock on Saturday, 9 March 1566. Mary, Rizzio, and the Lady Argyll were seated at the supper table.
On the night of Saturday, 9 March 1566 Mary, Queen of Scots’ private secretary, David Rizzio, was murdered in the queen's private chambers at the Palace of Holyroodhouse. Take a look inside these rooms and find out more about what happened that evening.
Mary Queen of Scots bedchamber in the James V Tower of the Palace of Holyroodhouse. Photo by the author. Mary was shaken, crying and in shock. She kept asking if Rizzio was dead and sent servants to retrieve a casket containing documents and a cipher from his chamber.
On 9 March 1566, David Rizzio, secretary and (possibly) lover of Mary, Queen of Scots , was brutally murdered in the queen's bedchamber at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. She was heavily pregnant at the time, with the child who would later be crowned
The story of the Italian courtier who became the private secretary of Mary Queen of Scots, before his brutal murder at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh.
19 mag 2024 · Here, Sir William Allan depicts the assassination of David Rizzio, the queen's Italian secretary, in March 1566. The artist took great care to be historically accurate, establishing the exact identity and role of all the individual conspirators and recreating the look of Mary's rooms at the Palace of Holyrood.
