If you consider yourself a history buff, you may already know the story of Mary Villiers, Countess of Buckingham. Her biggest claim to fame is getting her son George to seduce King James I so that she ...

Nicholas Galitzine knows the true meaning of suffering for his art. The actor, who stars as George Villiers on Mary & George, broke his ankle early on in filming and had to shoot some of the show's ...

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 ...

George Villiers became the favorite of King James I after his mother ... and for her supporting part in the brilliant detective drama Unforgotten as DCI Cassie Stuart. In Mary & George, Nicola will ...

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.