James I and VI liked to term himself Rex Pacificus. Like most politicians who talk a lot about working for peace, he was an appeaser. Inheriting the English throne after Elizabeth, whose foreign policy was defined by breaking Spanish dominance, James appears to have seen the purpose of his own Whitehall government as being to facilitate every Spanish demand.
Kate Maltby
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Twelve members of the audience are getting the chance to weigh up the evidence against Sir Walter Raleigh at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
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