Success at the Tudor and Stuart courts was a notoriously accident-prone attainment. In the favoured contemporary simile, those high-fliers who ‘soared Icarus-like’ towards the monarchical sun all too often ended up plummeting earthwards, with ignominious and often fatal results. Envy and enmity attended any great courtier’s rise. There was never a shortage of jealous rivals ready to hasten his fall.

Literary Review

Feb 2008

Categories

John Adamson

Ahead of Her Time

Did They Pullulate?

Ahead Of Her Time

Divided We Stand

The Sword & the Flute

A Fine Ligne

The Last Crusade

Eyewitness To An Era

A Tale of Two Houses

Ruled By an Orange

Wrong But Wromantic

Venice Once Was Dear

Holding Out until the Last Slice of Polenta

Pistol Politics

Where Have All the Aboriginals Gone?

Showing Her Metal

Scots at the Top