Page "Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley" Paragraph 13

The historian Sarah Macauley notes three outcomes of the courts ' final decision of the Lennox trial :" Their elevation at Court was, as it turned out in 1563, a useful complication in the succession issue.

First, it presented a public statement that the preferences of parliament ( the claim of Catherine Grey in the succession crisis ) could not dictate her own policy.

Secondly, favouring the Lennoxes could serve as some kind of appeasement of the English Roman Catholics, who, like the Spanish ambassador, might foresee Elizabeth naming Darnley as her successor