Even if it means volunteering her son, played by Nicholas Galitzine, as a lover for King James.
But, that doesnt mean she has to stay powerless.
King James VI of Scotland and I of England loved men.
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With his mind and body.For a very long time this fact was ignored, denied, or danced around.
(Clue: it is!
By ruling James heart and lower you might get to, essentially, rule the country.
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Not a sensible system of national governance, to put it mildly.
I find it hard not to love that.This first episode was my attempt to announce Mary.
Or at least pretend to.
I wanted Mary to be like one of those sharks that cannot sleep.
That has to keep moving for live.
Because she has to be.
A woman in a mans world.
A commoner in an age of Kings.
For a generation, he was England.
His sexual exploits during this time are genuinely staggering.
He made James seem like a quaint, untouched virgin.
But this power political and sexual corrupted him.
He is just a young, passionate, fairly innocent young man starting out in the provinces.
But it is also a timeless story, Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
And it always will.
As it did with George.Finally, in my writing I wanted to capture the spirit of this era.
And most lives do, in truth.
This show is not a dry history lesson.
It is pretty wet.
But so were the Jacobeans.
A people in the troubled shadow of their priapic, constantly inconstant lover of a King.
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