You have to wonder whether history would have been kinder to James VI & I if he had ended up being beheaded. His mother, Mary ...

The National Galleries of Scotland: Portrait will be opening their latest exhibition on Saturday 26th April 2025 entitled The ...

On his death the manor passed to the 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, who fought in the bloody War of the Roses, where he eventually ...

When constituting what a “well-regulated militia,” looks like, look no further than the first armed conflict of the War of the Revolution.Learning of military ...

King James VI & I has long been traduced as an effeminate, slobbering fool. But 400 years after his death, history is being ...

we reveal the couples who were too cool for rules on their big day Revisiting the royal wedding of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and the future King George VI The wedding of Prince Albert and Lady Elizabeth ...

A rare letter penned by King James VI of Scotland when he was just seven years old is set to go on public display for the first time later this month. The historic document, held by National ...

At the age of seven, King James VI wrote a note to his guardian’s wife, Annabella Murray, which will feature in a new exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery this month. The first ...

A childhood thank you letter written by King James VI of Scotland aged seven is to go on show later this month as part of a new exhibition. In the letter, the first known to have been written by ...