Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adrian Vanson’s, James VI and I (detail) - National Galleries of Scotland You have to wonder whether history would have been ...

The compressing effect of history tends to reduce British monarchs to a few words and deeds. Henry VIII, who reigned from 1509 to 1547, went through wives like handkerchiefs, in the process breaking ...

Posterity has not been kind to James VI and I, said Lucy Hughes-Hallett in The Telegraph. The first king to rule both Scotland (where he was James VI) and England, he presided over a sustained period ...