Lucy Hughes-Hallett: The Scapegoat
About this episode
This episode features a discussion with Lucy Hughes-Hallett about her biography of the Duke of Buckingham, exploring his complex life and the tumultuous times he lived in.
The scapegoat in question is the Duke of Buckingham: favourite and lover of James I and beloved friend of his son; husband, father, art collector, tireless statesman… The cost of his pearl-spilling outfit when he went to meet Henrietta Maria would have paid the mercenary army for four months. He was hated so fiercely by the time of his stabbing in a Portsmouth inn that his murderer was cheered en route to London. This biography of the fabulously handsome skimbleshanks is a scintillating portrait of a complex man and his tumultuous times. Interviewed by Johnny de Falbe Edited by Magnus Rena
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