James VI and I

James VI and I was the king who united the crowns of Scotland and England in 1603. His reign involved the Gunpowder Plot, religious disputes, court patronage and repeated attempts to define royal authority within two distinct political kingdoms.

Tracy Borman’s The King’s Witch places James VI and I within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, political ambition and government, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life. Elizabeth Fremantle’s Watch the Lady places James VI and I within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, court politics and dynastic power, and political ambition and government. Other novels featuring James VI and I include Elizabeth Fremantle’s The Poison Bed, Tracy Borman’s The Devil’s Slave, Tracy Borman’s The Fallen Angel, Peter Tonkin’s Shadow of the Tower, and Peter Tonkin’s Shadow of Treason.

In non-fiction, James VI and I is discussed in Gareth Russell’s The Six Loves of James I, Antonia Fraser’s Mary Queen of Scots, Tracy Borman’s Witches, Gareth Russell’s The Palace, and Tracy Borman’s The Stolen Crown. In Gareth Russell’s The Six Loves of James I, the work was first published in the UK and Ireland as Queen James and later issued in North America as The Six Loves of James I.