I f 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 ...

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 groomed him in the courtly skills of the time, and their relationship was one of great speculation. His rise through the ranks of ...

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.