The king who would be man

Published January 16, 2026 4:00am ET



Though I occasionally find myself sucked into the high-gloss gossip of modern celebrities and political figures, the intrigues of our own era’s rich and powerful can’t hold a candle to the high drama of Tudor and Stewart England. In Gareth Russell’s The Six Loves of James I, we learn about a monarch who, if they had existed in his day, would have ruled the tabloids.

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