In this first episode of The Darnley Affair: A Historical Whodunnit, historian Liam J. Atchison is joined in conversation with Athanasios Arkoudos to revisit one of the most notorious and least resolved murders of the sixteenth century: the death of Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. Beginning with Mary’s troubled reign, her disastrous marriage, and the violent court politics that culminated in the explosion at Kirk o’ Field in 1567, this episode lays out the facts of the crime without rushing to a verdict. Rather than treating the case as modern true crime, the series approaches it as a historical investigation shaped by contested evidence and inviting listeners to follow the story as historians must: carefully, self-aware, and with an eye toward what can and cannot be known.
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