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The King's Assassin
Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
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
737 minutes
Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Reviews
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