James Stewart, 1st Lord Doune

Mary of Guise wrote from Stirling Castle to his mother Lady Innermeath, counselling patience and offering support.

[5] On his return to England in January 1562, Elizabeth gave him a letter for Mary Queen of Scots, in which she apologised for not sending her portrait because the artist was unwell.

Mary, Queen of Scots mentioned to the ambassador Thomas Randolph that she would send Elizabeth a ring with a diamond made like a heart by the envoy who brought the portrait.

[7] However, both Mary, Queen of Scots and her half brother James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray became ill.[8] His sister Elizabeth married Robert Crichton of Cluny.

[13] In April 1583 the English diplomat Robert Bowes thought James VI had employed Lord Doune to hasten his departure from Scotland.

[14] In May 1583 Esmé Stewart, Duke of Lennox wrote to him from Paris, asking him to take care of his son Ludovic and help him recover his former possessions in Scotland for his benefit.

It was said that his widow, Margaret Campbell, Lady Doune, died in April 1592, from grief at not being allowed to bury her son, the murdered Earl of Moray, in Edinburgh.