Series Preview: Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine recreate a British scandal of sex and grooming to seduce one’s way to power — “Mary & George”

Posted on November 20, 2023 by Roger Moore

A bit of “true” history given a salacious two-part treatment by our friends at Starz (Remember them?).

Moore is Mary Villiers, Countess of Buckingham, who raised/groomed her son George to be ready for a life at court, and in a position to be “Royal Favorite” to the Stuart/Scottish King James, a possibly bisexual monarch who presided over Britain for 22 years after the death of the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I.

Tony Curran plays the randy and gay King James in this production.

Niamh Algar, Simon Russell Beale and Nicola Walker also star.

Coming to Starz next year.

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