George Villiers was said (by a future bishop ... he was a 17th-century Saltburn type, the kind of young man who’d now be the ...

Having married the senior George Villiers, Mary became a widow early ... lot of discussion about James’s relationship with these young Scottish men. “From an English point of view, the real ...

Sir George Villiers and his wife Mary Countess of Buckingham have a white marble monument with effigies in the chapel of St Nicholas in Westminster Abbey. Mary died on 19th April 1632 and was buried a ...

However, he is aware how precarious his position is and how easily he might be replaced. His worst fears become manifest when young George Villiers arrives at the court with his mother. Somerset has ...