On 9 March 1566 a group of Scottish Protestant lords led by Lord Ruthven and including Mary's husband Darnley burst into Mary's supper chamber at Holyrood and murdered her Italian secretary David Riccio in front of the queen. The act was partly political — Riccio was accused of being French and Catholic — and partly personal. Mary was pregnant with the future James VI. The murder required a violent seizure of the palace and the use of armed men to hold the queen and her ladies. Mary was briefly held under house arrest before escaping to Dunbar.
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