Queen James at Bromley House Library
Mon 06 Oct
|Bromley House Library
Join acclaimed historian and broadcaster Gareth Russell for what promises to be an evening of insight and intrigue. This is a ticketed event.
Time & Location
06 Oct 2025, 18:00 – 19:00 BST
Bromley House Library, Angel Row, Nottingham NG1 6HL
About The Event
Queen James - The Life and Loves of Britain's First King by Gareth Russell.
James Stuart, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland did not always love wisely, but he never failed to do so boldly.
Join acclaimed historian and broadcaster Gareth Russell for what promises to be an evening of insight and intrigue.
James fell in love three times – once with George Villiers, ‘the handsomest man in the whole world’ – and he was infatuated three more times – including with a Highland earl and an English spy. We have so much on the six wives of Henry VIII, why not the six loves of James I?
This ground breaking new book puts James – genius, liar, spendthrift, idealist, witch-hunter – and the men he loved at the centre of one of the most dramatic stories in British royal history.
Beginning with the brutal and mysterious murder of his…