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From the age of thirteen until his death, the life of King James VI of Scotland and I of England (1566–1625) was characterised by close relationships with a series of male favourites. The influence James' favourites had on politics, and the resentment at the wealth they acquired, became major political issues during his reign.
James, known formally as King James I of England and King James VI of Scotland, would likely be understood as bisexual today; there weren’t such labels for sexuality in his era, the 16 th and 17 th...
The intimate and sexual relationship between James VI and I and George Villers is depicted in certain terms on screen in the drama Mary & George, based on Woolley’s 2017 book The King’s Assassin: The Fatal Affair of George Villiers and James I (Pan Macmillan).
In his words, “James was a Godly King—not a homosexual/bisexual” (p. 341). This circular reasoning aside, Coston does marshal some interesting evidence to challenge the claim that King James had homosexual tendencies.
James VI of Scotland (later also crowned James I of England) is a king of some ambiguity: he was both intellectually wise (possibly one of the cleverest kings that either England or Scotland has had), yet also remarkably foolish in how he allowed his heart to rule his head.
Allegations of homosexuality made against King James, in his lifetime (1566-1625) and in the generation afterwards, shook the political world of early Stuart England. Young’s book documents the existence of James’s homosexual relationships and analyzes the hostile reactions of contemporaries.
No one identified as a “homosexual” in King James’s time (1566-1625). The word was only coined in the Victorian period and sexuality was not used to construct identities as it is today ...