Seducing James I: Mary & George

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The major new TV series, Mary & George tells the scandalous story of George Villiers, who rose - thanks to his mother Mary’s machinations - from minor gentry to enrapture King James VI & I, Britain’s first Stuart king. For a decade, George Villiers was at James’s side – at court, on state occasions and in bed, right up to James’s death in March 1625.

In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Dr. Benjamin Wooley, acclaimed author of The King’s Assassin, a compelling portrait of a royal favourite whose charisma overwhelmed those around him and, ultimately, himself.

This episode was edited by Ella Blaxill and produced by Rob Weinberg.

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by the new cinema release Civil War
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0:40.5	provoking analysis of human nature.
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1:23.0	Aering on sky is a stunning new series Mary and George set in a period that frankly doesn't get its
1:35.5	fair share of TV time the Jacobean era aka the early 17th century rain of
1:41.5	James the 6th and 1st. Starring Julianne Moore as Mary, Nicholas Galizine
1:47.8	as George, and Tony Curran as the King, it brings to the screen a historical story that in the queer court of James the 6th and 1st,
1:57.0	the beautiful and charismatic George Villiers captured the favour, trust and love of the king.
2:04.0	The drama amplifies what history tells us
2:07.0	that it was George's mother Mary
2:09.0	who had a hand in leading her son to the king's bed.
2:13.0	Will you show me a wife?
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