Using the technique of craniofacial superimposition, Emma Price at Jordanstone College of Art and Design has shown pretty conclusively that a skull in Edinburgh University’s collection, believed to be that of Darnley, isn’t the noble lord’s after all. Read more here.

In an earlier post we pointed out the connection between Darnley and darnel, the wheat look-alike that isn’t a wheat at all. An interesting convergence.