Early Stuart England
Early Stuart England
Greg Koabel
Episode 25: George Villiers
27 minutes Posted Oct 13, 2018 at 11:01 am.
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1615-1616

23 year old George Villiers supplants the disgraced earl of Somerset as King James' favourite.  However, the young man quickly proves to be far more ambitious than his backers imagined, and Villiers establishes a stranglehold on power that will last over a decade.