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The Life and Times of King James VI of Scotland, I of England

by Antonia Fraser

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This biography follows James VI of Scotland as he became James I of England and ruled over the joined crowns after Elizabeth I’s death. Fraser examines his Scottish upbringing, accession to the English throne, court politics, religious policy, dynastic ambitions and the Jacobean crises that included the Gunpowder Plot. The book treats James as a complex Stuart monarch: intellectually ambitious, politically cautious, vulnerable to favourites and central to the transition from Tudor rule to the conflicts of the seventeenth century.

Historical Periods

Gunpowder Plot1605 CE

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Elizabeth I1533–1603 Mary, Queen of Scots1542–1587 Charles I of England1600–1649 James VI and I1566–1625 Guy Fawkes1570–1606

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