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The King's Assassin by Benjamin Woolley is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The King's Assassin about?
The rise of George Villiers from minor gentry to royal power seemed to defy gravity. Becoming gentleman of the royal bedchamber in 1615, the young gallant enraptured James, Britain's first Stuart king, royal adoration reaching such an intensity that the king declared he wanted the courtier to become his 'wife'. For a decade, Villiers was at the king's side – at court, on state occasions and in bed, right up to James's death in March 1625. Almost immediately, Villiers' many enemies accused him of poisoning the king. A parliamentary investigation was launched, and scurrilous pamphlets and ballads circulated London's streets. But the charges came to nothing, and were relegated to a historical footnote. Now, new historical scholarship suggests that a deadly combination of hubris and vulnerability did indeed drive Villiers to kill the man who made him. It may have been by accident – the application of a quack remedy while the king was weakened by a malarial...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Benjamin Woolley
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan UK
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Mystery, Historical Fiction, Historical
- Rating
- 3.69 / 5 (52 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14