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  • Her private secretary David Rizzio was murdered in her personal rooms by a group led by her husband Lord Darnley, who believed she was having an affair with Rizzio.

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  • Perhaps this was because of the drama my father made over the bloodstained floorboards where Rizzio was left after being stabbed by Darnley.

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  • Her private secretary David Rizzio was murdered in her personal rooms by a group led by her husband Lord Darnley, who believed she was having an affair with Rizzio.

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  • Perhaps this was because of the drama my father made over the bloodstained floorboards where Rizzio was left after being stabbed by Darnley.

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  • It may become you to remember that the death of the minion, Rizzio, cost the house of Ruthven its head and leader.

    The Abbot 2008

  • Lindesay, Ruthven, and your kinsman Morton, poniarded Rizzio, and yet you now see no blood on their embroidery — the Lord Semple stabbed the Lord of

    The Abbot 2008

  • George Douglas, who stabbed Rizzio, was the postulate for the temporal possessions of the rich abbey of

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • Ruthven who was prime agent in the murder of Rizzio; and little mercy was to be expected from his conjunction with Lindesay.

    The Abbot 2008

  • The universal tradition bears that, when Rizzio was dragged out of the chamber of the Queen, the heat and fury of the assassins, who struggled which should deal him most wounds, despatched him at the door of the anteroom.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • The royalty of Francis, the wit of Chastelar, the power and gallantry of the gay Gordon, the melody of Rizzio, the portly form and youthful grace of Darnley, the bold address and courtly manners of Bothwell — and now the deep-devoted passion of the noble Douglas — nought could save them! — they looked on the wretched Mary, and to have loved her was crime enough to deserve early death!

    The Abbot 2008

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