Precisely 451 years after the June 19, 1566, birth of King James I of England, one achievement of his reign still stands ...
The compressing effect of history tends to reduce British monarchs to a few words and deeds. Henry VIII, who reigned from 1509 to 1547, went through wives like handkerchiefs, in the process breaking ...
Among the courtiers whom James I met in 1603 was Lord Philip Herbert, who was handsome as Adonis and as stupid as a tree stump. Philip minded neither and acknowledged both. He cheerfully admitted that ...
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