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As King James Is favourite, George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham was the Kings gatekeeper, right-hand man and lover. When Charles I succeeded his father, he was similarly enthralled and made Buckingham his best friend and first minister. Buckingham rapidly transformed the influence his beauty gave him into immense wealth and power.
Lucy Hughes-Hallett transports us into a courtly world of masques and dancing, the art of Rubens and Van Dyck, gender-fluidity, same-sex desire, and appallingly rudimentary medicine. Witch hunts coexisted with Francis Bacons empiricism and public opinion was becoming a political force.
Buckingham came to represent everything that was wrong with the country. The Scapegoat navigates love, war-fever and pacifism in a society on the brink of cataclysmic change. In this richly compelling account, Hughes-Hallett summons an era that still resonates today.
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| Lucy Hughes-Hallett The Scapegoat, The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham (5 Oct 2025) | ||
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| Sunday | 14:30 | |
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