The King's Assassin
24 August 2017Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Now a major TV series, Mary & George, starring Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine.
The King’s Assassin is the scandalous story of George Villiers, lover – and murderer – of King James I.
The rise of George Villiers from minor gentry to royal power seemed to defy gravity. Becoming gentleman of the royal bedchamber in 1615, the young gallant enraptured James, Britain’s...
Details
24 August 2017336 pages
9781509837076Imprint: Picador
Reviews
ColourfulThe Times
It is an utterly gripping read, vivid with incidental detail and dark Jacobean politics, that offers a ringside seat for the spectacle of a powerful man, very publicly, sowing the seeds of his own demise . . . I devoured it.Elizabeth Fremantle, author of Queen’s Gambit and The Girl in the Glass Tower
