Mary & George: what’s true and what's false – fact checking the scandalous new Sky show
The story of Mary and George Villiers reads like something from a thriller rather than a dusty history book.
Over several years, the pair contrived to place themselves at the centre of the Jacobean Court, by positioning George as an ideal lover to the King of England, James I – at least according to Sky Atlantic’s scandalous new romp Mary & George.
Airing on March 4 and adapted from Benjamin Woolley’s book The King’s Assassin, Mary & George is billing itself as “an audacious historical psychodrama about a treacherous mother and son who schemed, seduced and killed to conquer the Court of England and the bed of its King”.
Starring and , it’s set to be a must-watch, but what
