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The making of England’s Scots king on 400th anniversary of his death
THIS week sees the 400th anniversary of the death of one of Scotland and Britain’s most important kings. On March 27, 1625, King James VI and ...
History Today4d
James VI and I: Spinning the English Succession
Eager to be first in line, the astute James VI of Scotland responded to the question of the English succession with a war of ...
BBC1d
Civil War and Revolution
In 1604, a group of English Catholics, angered by James I's failure to relax the penal laws against their co-religionists, hatched a plot to blow up the king and ... and Anne of Denmark, Princess ...
Smithsonian Magazine6d
Cool Finds
The king's mummy and sarcophagus are missing from the royal tomb, which is the second of its kind unearthed this year Eli Wizevich The two pieces of the 800-year-old sculpture were discovered ...