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— -- England's King James I gave us Jamestown and the King James Bible. But historians have long suspected he also gave his descendant King George III an inherited case of madness. Best known ...

In a way, King James I of England is lucky. His predecessor Elizabeth was one of the most powerful and infamous monarchs in history, and his successor Charles got his head chopped off. Between those ...

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Among the courtiers whom James I met in 1603 was Lord Philip Herbert, who was handsome as Adonis and as stupid as a tree stump. Philip minded neither and acknowledged both. He cheerfully admitted that ...