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Warpy

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5. The humor at the time was ribald anc court comedies were participatory
Sat Aug 19, 2023, 04:33 PM
Aug 2023

and yes, the king joined in the fun. Dignified pomp happened in cathedrals and anywhere he appeared in front of the commons. At home with his homies, anything went. And did.

While portraits make him look like a rather tight tipped Puritan and he did commission the scholarly KJV of the bible, his court was anything but understated:

As King of Scotland, James’s artistic patronage had facilitated a flourishing Renaissance court culture. The baptismal celebrations for the King’s heir, Prince Henry – held at Stirling Castle in 1594 – provided symbolic confirmation of Stuart dynastic fecundity, in contrast to Tudor barrenness. Fourteen new outfits were designed for James and his Danish queen, Anne, crafted from imported plush, satin and taffeta from Genoa, velvet from Lucca, and cloth of silver and gold in a rainbow palette. The baptismal banquet included a 40ft-high galleon, with ‘herrings, whiting, flounders, oysters, whelks, crabs and clams – all modelled in sugar’, according to one account of the festivities.


https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/magazine-lockdown-and-luxury-the-court-of-james-i

If you're asking if he was gay, that has not been established. He and his queen did their duty and produced heirs.

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A question for any historian that studies [View all] multigraincracker Aug 2023 OP
Well the Pope looks like one Farmer-Rick Aug 2023 #1
Perhaps a bit off-topic usonian Aug 2023 #2
Interesting Duncanpup Aug 2023 #3
History seems to confirm that. multigraincracker Aug 2023 #4
He had a crush on an Earl and other men in his court Farmer-Rick Aug 2023 #6
The humor at the time was ribald anc court comedies were participatory Warpy Aug 2023 #5
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