is a seven-episode show about the affair between King James VI and George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. Based on the 2017 book The King's Assassin: The Fatal Affair of George Villiers and ...

James's tutor, the historian and poet George Buchanan ... In March 1603, Elizabeth died and James became king of England and Ireland in a remarkably smooth transition of power.

For Tony Curran, playing a Scottish king was an opportunity he couldn't pass up—because he would be bringing a little-known monarch to life. The new Starz series Mary & George depicts King James ...

George Villiers became the favorite of King James I after his mother groomed him in the ... Son of Mary, Queen of Scots, James took the Scottish throne (as James VI) at the age of just thirteen months ...

Based on the extraordinary true story of Mary Villiers, Sky’s new Jacobean period drama Mary & George follows a mother who moulded her son to become the all-powerful lover of King James I.