James VI and I had a way with a quill ... When 18-year-old Henry died of typhoid fever in 1612, the book was passed to James’s second son, who later became King Charles I. 5.

Despite James VI and I’s somewhat noble (and clearly personal) intentions in uniting the Crowns, there’s evidence this created religious and political tensions that led to the 17th century ...

You have to wonder whether history would have been kinder to James VI & I if he had ended up being beheaded. His mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, had been brought to the scaffold in 1587, her death ...