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 ...

Set in the 1600s, the seven-part series follows the ambitious Mary Villiers (Moore) who seeks to advance her station in court after noticing that King James VI of Scotland and I of England (Tony ...

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 ...

Museum marks first year with exhibition on origins and legacy of Macbeth - Macbeth: An Exhibition runs at Perth Museum from ...

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He was crowned James VI of Scotland in 1567 when he was just over one year old ... Her Latin inscription can be translated Sophia, a royal rosebud untimely plucked by Fate and from James, King of ...

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’.

She married secondly in 1565 Henry, Lord Darnley, son of Margaret Stewart, Countess of Lennox, in 1565 and had one son who became King James VI of Scotland and I of England. After Darnley's mysterious ...

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 ...