James I: The Court at Play

When he became King, James I set out to change the English Royal Palace. His forgotten palaces tell a remarkable story about the man and the Stuart era.

A lecture by Simon Thurley CBE, Visiting Professor of the Built Environment
18 September 2019 6PM BST
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-court-at-play

Before he became King of England in 1603 James I had never set foot in an English royal palace. What he found when he did was a mixed blessing: he may have liked the grandeur and riches, but he hated the stuffy formality. His answer was to create an entirely new sort of country residence devoted to hunting, reading and relaxation with his male favourites. Architecturally incoherent these places may have been, but James’s remarkable forgotten country houses tell us a huge amount about the man and the dawn of the Stuart age.

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