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BBF25 Talk - 'Queen James': The Life and Loves of Britain's First King

  • Brecon Cathedral Tithebarn Cathedral Close Brecon, Wales, LD3 9DP United Kingdom (map)

A talk by the book’s author Gareth Russell

James Stuart, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland did not always love wisely, but he never failed to do so boldly.

He fell in love three times – with a Scottish lord, a knight and George Villiers, ‘the handsomest man in the whole world’. He was infatuated three more times – with a Highland earl, a Welsh lord and an English spy.

We know so much about the six wives of Henry VIII, why not the six loves of James I?

This groundbreaking new book puts James – genius, liar, spendthrift, idealist, witch-hunter – and the men he loved at the centre of one of the most dramatic stories in British royal history.

Duration: One hour plus book signing.

Tickets: £15

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