This reimagining of the murder of David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is utterly absorbing, writes Roger Cox It always pays to read the acknowledgements at the end of a book. More ...

“Rizzio,” a brief novel of historical treachery by the adventurous Scottish author Denise Mina, is set mostly in Edinburgh’s Holyrood Palace in early 1566. In residence at Holyrood is the 23-year-old ...

In Rizzio (Pegasus Crime, Sept.), Mina dramatizes the Tudor-era assassination of David Rizzio, the personal secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots. Where did the idea for this book come from? Rizzio is ...

One of the most shocking scenes in the upcoming Mary Queen of Scots movie comes when Mary Stuart, played by Saoirse Ronan, walks in on her husband Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley in bed with her gay male ...

David Rizzio was the secretary for relations with France and a court favourite of Mary, Queen of Scots. But, having become deeply unpopular among the Scottish nobles, he was the target of a vicious ...

In Rizzio, multi-award winning Scottish crime writer Denise Mina has turned her talent to historical crime, in a modern retelling of one of the most infamous episodes in Scottish history, the murder ...

Scottish experts have handed down their judgment on a crime that occurred almost 450 years ago. Mary, Queen of Scots has been exonerated of any involvement in her husband’s murder in 1567 by a group ...

In 2021, Polygon, an Edinburgh-based publisher, launched the Darkland Tales, a series of "dramatic fictional retellings of stories from history, myth and legend" written by Scotland's greatest ...

On March 9, 1566, David Rizzio, confidential secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, was murdered in Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. In 1661 Louis XIV took personal rule of France after the death of his ...

This reimagining of the murder of David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is utterly absorbing, writes Roger Cox It always pays to read the acknowledgements at the end of a book. More ...

On March 9, 1566, David Rizzio, the confidential secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, was stabbed to death in Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. In 1822 Charles Graham of New York received the first patent ...