The compressing effect of history tends to reduce British monarchs to a few words and deeds. Henry VIII, who reigned from 1509 to 1547, went through wives like handkerchiefs, in the process breaking ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Among the courtiers whom James I met in 1603 was Lord Philip Herbert, who was handsome as Adonis and as ...

— -- 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 ...

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 ...