A poet and scholar, James sought to avoid conflicts in Europe and commissioned the translation of the Bible that would bear his name.

— -- 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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Among the courtiers whom James I met in 1603 was Lord Philip Herbert, who was handsome as Adonis and as ...

In the historical drama “Mary and George,” new on Starz, Julianne Moore plays an ambitious mother whose son catches the eye of King James I of England. By Roslyn Sulcas Reporting from London Standing ...

The new mini-series dramatizes the Villiers family’s scandalous rise to power at the court of England’s James I Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History Julianne Moore as Mary Villiers ...