James I, gay icon? How Britain’s first king put Henry VIII to shame with his coterie of scandalous lovers

‘Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived’ captures perfectly why Henry VIII and his half-dozen queens continue to fascinate. Having previously written a book about wife number
five, I am certainly not immune to the sparkle of The Six. However, there are few more delicious and macabre stories than that of King James I (VI of Scotland).

Society loves to remember the six wives of Henry VIII, but, as I found out while…