#james i

[quasi-normalcy]

[maxbegone]

i think it's time for a new member in your bedchamber.

MARY & GEORGE (2024) → Episode 2, The Hunt

[isabelleneville]

[james-winston]

omfg I am so behind on this (and yes I’ve only become aware of it because Nicholas Galitzine offof rwarb is in it) but they’re making a fucking Duke of Buckingham series!!!

And you’re all sitting there like “who??” well let me tell you about this absolute fuck.

George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham was the favourite of King James VI&I and by favourite I do mean it in the gayest of ways. (He started life as Sir George, the shittest of titles, and fucked his way to a Dukedom.)

Long story short, here’s a list of things I need to see in this series or I will SUE:

George slut dropping his way into James’s bed. (I mean, he danced for him, but whatever the 17th century equivalent to slut dropping was you can bet George was doing it.)

The exasperation of James’s advisors when he picks yet another beautiful young man to fuck and give totally unreasonable amounts of money and power to.

Even funnier if they show them actively helping George overthrow James’s old favourite before realising “oh shit this one’s worse.”

George failing consistently at every job he was given. (Yes I know he didn’t actually but where’s the comedy in competency? Give me himbo George or give me death.)

Parliament calling James to task on George being a fucking useless nuisance and James standing up in front of parliament and literally saying, “You may be sure that I love the Earl of Buckingham more than anyone else, and more than you who are here assembled. I wish to speak in my own behalf, and not to have it thought to be a defect, for Jesus Christ did the same, and therefore I cannot be blamed. Christ had his John, and I have my George.” (Huge points for throwing Jesus under the gay bus too.)

James practically arranging George’s marriage for him and then riding his horse around the park crying because George, shock, got married.

What better be the dirtiest sex scenes ever broadcast on British television that lead to the “master and dog” letter.

The consistent drama queenery from James, e.g:

I refuse to tag this as a spoiler because it happened 400 years ago: George smothering James and then playing the heartbroken widow to his son. (Historically debated, if anyone wants details shoot me an ask.)

George getting stabbed to death in what was probably the justified climax of him being the most irritating man alive.

George’s assassin getting the warmest send off ever given by any crowd at a public execution cause the people hated George so fucking much.

[diana9241livejournalcom]

About Mary&George, there's something really important to understand about king James's attitude.

James VI and I was deepley traumatized because he had a shitty and traumatic childhood, something who affected him for all his life.

The first trauma happened when he wasn't even born!!!

9th march 1566, queen Mary's secretary, the Italian Davide Rizzio ( or Riccio ) was stabbed 57 times by plotters, he tried to save himself hiding behind the queen but it doesn't work.

Mary was deeply traumatized for this not only per sè but for an other motive. She was six moth pregnant and lord Ruthven pointed his sword against his belly and threated to cut her "in pieces". Yes, James was not even born, it was said that he was afraid of swords 'cause this.

when he was 8 months his father was killed, by the man who became his stepfather, his mother was innocent

The 24 april 1567 he saw for the last time his mother, queen Mary Stuart was abducted, imprisoned and raped by james Hepbun lord bothwell. Yes, I know for someone Mary/Bothwell are a very romantic love story but let's be clear. it was a toxic relationship

Two moths later his mother is forced to amrry Bothwell 'cause she's pregnant, with twins, and after a short civil war she's imprisoned by the queen Elizabeth

James is crowned king at 13 months and the regency is on his half uncle, lord James Moray

James Moray was killed in 1570

The the regenty become yhe king's granfather: Matthew Lennox

Matthew Lennox was killed when James was 5, and it's very gory: the consipirator stab him in front of the child, Lennox tried to save himself behind his king, and grandchild but he was taken away by force, then his body, baraly alive, was take near a window and throw away.... ALL OF THIS in front a 5 year child

James was physically abused by his tutor George Buchanan, a puritan fanatic who hates monarchy and beat his pupil nearly every day. James will be one of the most cultured king but he the trauma never left him, one day when he was already king of England he met an old man who looks like Buchanan and he started to tremble.

He said about his tutor "I learned Latin before English", Buchanan also lied about queen Mary's involment in the Darley's death

when he was 13 he met hsi father's cousin, Esmé Stuart and he fall in love with him. Esmé is 39, he's catholic and French so after one year he is forced toi exil but he helps James to start to debunk some things about his mother

when he was 14 he was abucted for an year and nearly killed

It could be end very bad, with James become a psycho but luckly he become a very traumatized man who seek affection from everyone, he came out at 13 so... Esmé, John, Philip, Richard, Robert and then George, he always tried to recreate the relationship between him and Esmé.

and that's all folks

[yonder-yonder]

[royalsandcourtiers]

The History Behind: Mary and George Part I

New Historical drama alert and it looks like it's going to be INTENSE.

New historical drama alert! Early March will see the mini-series Mary and George find our screens and it looks like it’s going to be dramatic. For a start, it’s produced by Starz so we can expect a liberal disregard for history in favour of ridiculous and way over the top drama. The story follows George Villiers, lover and especial favourite of King James I of England (VI of Scotland) and,…

[tiny-librarian]

On March 24th, in 1603, Elizabeth I died at Richmond Palace between two and three in the morning after having been Queen for a total of 44 years, 127 days. She was the last ruler of the Tudor Dynasty and is still considered to be one of England’s most popular monarchs.

Throughout her life, she had infamously never married or had any children, leading to her nickname of “The Virgin Queen”. Elizabeth was succeeded on the throne by her 1st cousin twice removed, James VI of Scotland, who was the great-grandson of her father’ sister Margaret. He would rule in England as James I, becoming the first monarch of the House of Stuart.

[edwardiionlyfans]

house of Stuart + the female line

[brokenbluebouquet]

Just when I thought this couldn't get any worse....

As D.C. Moore later explains, this was not just a spot of 16th-century innuendo: ‘Gentleman Of The Royal Bedchamber’ was a real title in royal households at the time. “George basically controlled the country and did what he wanted,” he explains. “Meanwhile, James is like, ‘I just want to smoke and swear and get pissed and have sex with men and chill out and go hunting.’” God save the king!

Actually, this is not surprising as all this is every single bit of whig/puritan propaganda about James and the Stuart monarchy in a nutshell.

I honestly have no idea where to begin with this as this is wrong on so many levels. Although James wasn't to most diligent or patient man when it came to the minutae of government, and his reputation for laziness isn't totally baseless; that didn't mean that he was a do nothing king or a passive tool. And just because George had the powers of patronage and controlled access to the king, it does not follow that he was the one setting the policy agenda on his own terms. not by a long shot.

That's the last thing James was - we are talking about the man who wrote the LITERAL FUCKING BOOK on divine right kingship, and one of the reasons he was so reliant on favourites was because it was a way to bypass independently powerful aristocratic grandees and enforce his own policy agenda in government and parliament. This is classic autocracy logic that goes straight over the head of D C Moore.

[shakespearenews]

Earlier sources stress this initial period of peace even further and depict Macbeth as a good king: The Prophecy of Berchán written in the eleventh century describe him as, ‘the generous king of Fortriu’, and ‘The red, tall, golden-haired one, he will be pleasant to me among them’ This initial period of stable government is not hinted at in Macbeth.

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The main plot for Macbeth, like many of Shakespeare’s history plays, was Raphael Holinshed’s The Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande. Shakespeare does make one small but highly significant change to Holinshed’s narrative. Before the murder of Duncan, Macbeth, ‘communicating his proposed intent with his trustie friends, amongst whom Banquho was the chiefest, vpon confidence of their promised aid, he slue the king…[vol. 5, p. 269]. Banquo had full knowledge of the assassination plot and even aided Macbeth in his aim. Shakespeare wisely altered this narrative to cast James VI/I’s ancestor as a noble victim, aware of Macbeth’s future, but not how he would achieve it.

[outrowingss]

I don’t know if any of you have seen this but Sky and AMC are making a series on the rise on the rise of Mary and George Villiers in James VI/I’s court - what do you think?

[werewolfetone]

Get his ass professor Gwatkin

[diana9241livejournalcom]

TW// mentions of grooming and sa

I have a question about King James:) A lot of people on Twitter (since a new small clip came out of the king and George) have said that George was a victim of King James and was taken advantage of, exploited (mainly by his mom), and abused. I was wondering if this was true about the King because people have said (and I’m just reading what people are saying) ‘he’s man who’s double his age, has power over him in multiple ways to take advantage of his financial struggles (and the situation his mother manipulated him into), and make him essentially one of his pets and become extremely obsessive over him’. I’ve also seen people agree with them but also saying that nobody in the show is innocent even George (I think he sa’d someone apparently?).

I just wanted to ask because I’ve also heard a lot of the struggles King James has had to over come in his life (I saw an anon else where saying he was disabled in a few ways) and it makes me wonder if the King was a good man, bad man, or just both in a way?

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So, it's very difficoult to respond in alanguage that is not my birt language but I will try.

James had a lot of trauma in his first years, he saw his granfather die in fron of his eyes when he was 5, he was physically abused by his tutor and brainwashed by his own court. He was a frail man, with a patetic desider of love and be loved.

So with George, but with Robbie, Philiph and the others too was booth way: he taken advantage and he was taken advantage of him.

James was 50 when he met George, who was 22 but George ruled the king as he was the king himsfelf, and James allowed that. He allowed George had his own favourite even, Wat Montague.

So... James was a man of his times, George too and we cannot judge them with our parameters, especially George who tried to rape the queen of France. I know, in the Three Muskeeters it said it was love but it's the XIX century were rape was seen as love and what happeened between him and Anne of Auistria was attempted rape

[james-winston]

saw your post about the Duke of Buckingham series (the trailer looks awesome) and may i ask what's this letter about a master and a dog?

Here you go! I will be watching 😌 respectfully 😌