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William Collins An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2017 Copyright © Sarah Fraser 2017 Cover image shows detail from Henry, Prince of Wales with Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex in the Hunting Field c. 1605 by Robert Peake (active 1580–1635) Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017 Sarah Fraser asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work Maps by Martin Brown A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Source ISBN: 9780007548101 Ebook Edition © May 2017 ISBN: 9780007548095 Version: 2018-02-13 For my sons, Sandy and Calum CONTENTS
1 Birth, Parents, Crisis: ‘A son of goodly hability and expectation’
3 The Fight for Henry: ‘Two mighty factions’
4 Nursery to Schoolroom: ‘The King’s Gift’
5 Tutors and Mentors: ‘Study to rule’
6 The Stuarts Inaugurate the New Age
7 A Home for Henry and Elizabeth: Oatlands
8 The Stuarts Enter London: ‘We are all players’
9 Henry’s Anglo-Scottish Family: Nonsuch
10 Henry’s Day: ‘The education of a Christian prince’
11 Union and Disunion: ‘Blow you Scotch beggars back to your native mountains’
12 Europe Assesses Henry: ‘A prince who promises very much’
13 The Collegiate Court of St James’s
14 Money and Empire: ‘O brave new world’
15 Friends as Tourists and Spies: ‘Traveller for the English wits’
16 Henry’s Political Philosophy: ‘Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power’
17 Favourites: ‘The moths and mice of court’
18 Henry’s Supper Tables: Lumley’s library and tavern wits
19 Henry’s Foreign Policy: ‘Talk for peace, prepare for war’
20 Heir of Virginia: ‘There is a world elsewhere’
PART THREE: PRINCE OF WALES, 1610–12
21 Epiphany: ‘To fight their Saviour’s battles’
22 Prince of Wales: ‘Every man rejoicing and praising God’
