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James, second surviving son of King Charles I and his wife, Henrietta Maria of France, was born at St James's Palace in London on 14 October 1633. [7] Later that same year, he was baptized by William Laud, the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury. [8]
Portrait of James II of England is a 1684 portrait painting by the German-born British artist Godfrey Kneller. [1] It depicts the future James II , then Duke of York and heir to his brother Charles II .
Portrait of James by Nicholas Hilliard, from the period 1603–1609. In 1607, Carr happened to break his leg at a tilting match, at which King James VI and I was in attendance. According to Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, the king taught him Latin. [2] The king subsequently knighted the young Carr and took him into favour.
Albany took James's lands under his control, depriving the king of income and any of the regalia of his position, and James was referred to in records as 'the son of the late king'. [35] The king had a small household of Scots that included Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, Alexander Seaton, the nephew of Sir David Fleming, and Orkney's brother ...
The body of King James lay in state at Denmark House. [28] [29] The rooms were draped with black cloth and the coffin covered with black velvet. A lifelike wooden effigy of the king was placed on top, dressed in royal robes. [30] The room was lit with six silver candlesticks that Prince Charles had bought in Spain in 1623. [31]
Other influential anti-James histories written during the 1650s include: Edward Peyton's Divine Catastrophe of the Kingly Family of the House of Stuarts (1652); Arthur Wilson's History of Great Britain, Being the Life and Reign of King James I (1658); and Francis Osborne's Historical Memoirs of the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James (1658 ...
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States.
Collection: Unknown: Object history: Provenance: The Dukes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha by descent to H.H. Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Schloss Greinburg, Austria (1)