Private Life of King James VI & I

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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King James VI and I, the first monarch to reign over Scotland, England and Ireland, has a mixed reputation. To many, he is simply the homosexual King, the inveterate witch-roaster, the smelly sovereign who never washed, the colourless man behind the authorised Bible bearing his name, or the drooling fool whose speech could barely be understood. For too long, he has paled in comparison to his more celebrated Tudor and Stuart forebears.

In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb finds out more from Dr. Steven Veerapen - author of The Wisest Fool: The Lavish Life of James VI and I - whose research has revealed King James as a gregarious, idealistic man obsessed with the idea of family, whose personal and political goals could never match up to reality.

This episode was produced by Rob Weinberg.

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1:00.0	the first Stuart King of England, James, had been King of Scotland since his mother's forced
1:06.0	abdication in 1567 when he was just a year old.
1:11.1	He had, therefore, by the time he took the English throne more years of experience of kingship than Henry VIII in his entire reign, albeit as a child for much of it.
1:21.0	You'd think that was an obvious story here about the experience of growing up as a king, so much of the focus of work on Louis the 14th, for example, but both that experience and indeed much of James's time as an adult Scottish
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