Eventually in 1603 Elizabeth died and James was offered the throne. The succession passed smoothly and James VI of Scotland became James I of England and Ireland. Although promising to return to ...

Set in the 1600s, the seven-part series follows the ambitious Mary Villiers (Moore) who seeks to advance her station in court ...

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Other accused witches included Agnes Sampson, a respected elderly woman in North Berwick and Dr John Fian, a local ...

This was the moment her cousin and heir, the Scottish King James VI, had been waiting for. Scotland was one of the poorest kingdoms in Europe, with a weak and feeble crown. England by comparison ...

In March 1603, Elizabeth died and James became king of England and Ireland in a remarkably smooth transition of power. After 1603 he only visited Scotland once, in 1617. One of James's great ...

When James VI of Scotland ascended the throne of England as James I in ... homosexuality and all-round Scottishness defied conventional ideas of what an English king should be. The person to whom the ...

It was here that King James VI agreed the new translation of the Bible, known the world over as ‘the King James Version’. This gained the church the epithet of ‘the Kirk of the Bible’.

The succession passed smoothly and James VI of Scotland became James I of England ... James' vision of himself as king of a united Britain occupied his early years. James even went as far as ...