The King's Assassin
The Fatal Affair of George Villiers and James I
$46.43
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
13 March 2018
Summary
The rise of George Villiers from minor gentry to royal power seemed to defy gravity. Becoming gentleman of the royal bedchamber in 1615, the young gallant enraptured James, Britain’s first Stuart king, royal adoration reaching such an intensity that the king declared he wanted the courtier to become his ‘wife’. For a decade, Villiers was at the king’s side - at court, on state occasions and in bed, right up to James’s death in March 1625.
Almost immediately, Villiers’ many enemies acc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509837083 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1509837086 |
| Author: | Benjamin Woolley |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Pan Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 13 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 276g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 132mm x 204mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Colourful * The Times *
It is an utterly gripping read, vivid with incidental detail and dark Jacobean politics, that offers a ringside seat for the spectacle of a powerful man, very publicly, sowing the seeds of his own demise … I devoured it. – Elizabeth Fremantle, author of Queen’s Gambit and The Girl in the Glass Tower
Benjamin Woolley
Benjamin Woolley is an author and broadcaster whose work covers subjects ranging from the origins of virtual reality, to the Elizabethan philosopher, scientist and conjuror John Dee, and from the mathematician and computing pioneer (and daughter of Lord Byron) Ada Lovelace to the history of colonial America. His books have been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese, and his documentaries broadcast across the world. He lives in London.
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