TODAY marks the day that James VI, King of Scotland, also became King James I of England, on 24 March 1603. Born in 1566, James was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots and a great-great-grandson of Henry ...
King James VI and I came to the English throne at a turbulent time. His mother (Mary, Queen of Scots) had just been beheaded by the woman whose throne he inherited (Elizabeth I). Britain was teetering ...