Among the courtiers whom James I met in 1603 was Lord Philip Herbert, who was handsome as Adonis and as stupid as a tree stump. Philip minded neither and acknowledged both. He cheerfully admitted that ...
— -- England's King James I gave us Jamestown and the King James Bible. But historians have long suspected he also gave his descendant King George III an inherited case of madness. Best known ...
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The king who led a continent-wide witch hunt
King James VI and I came to the English throne at a turbulent time.
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