#OTD 9 Mar 1566

#DavidRizzio musician & secretary to #MaryQueenofScots was murdered in front of her

Pregnant, she narrowly escaped harm in the frenzied stabbing by a gang of Lairds led by her jealous husband #HenryDarnley

His body then thrown down the staircase at Holyrood Palace

#History

#OTD 9 Mar 1566

#DavidRizzio musician & secretary to #MaryQueenofScots was murdered in front of her

Pregnant, she narrowly escaped harm in the frenzied knife attack by a gang of Lairds led by her jealous husband #HenryDarnley

His body then thrown down the staircase at Holyrood Palace

#OTD 9 Mar 1566

#DavidRizzio musician & secretary to #MaryQueenofScots was murdered in front of her

Pregnant, she narrowly escaped harm in the frenzied stabbing by a gang of Lairds led by her jealous husband #HenryDarnley

His body then thrown down the staircase at Holyrood Palace

#Elizabethan