Even the Tudors would have been shocked by this royal romance.
Over the course of her decades-long career, Julianne Moore has played everyone from Virginia Woolf to Maude Lebowski, President Coin to Dora Maar, yet the Oscar and BAFTA winner never signed on for acame along. Due out on Sky Atlantic in the UK and AMC in the US later this year, thedirector’s seven-part series recounts the true story of Mary Villiers, mother of the notorious 1st Duke of Buckingham, who effectively ruled England in the latter years of James I’s reign.
It’s Mary who’s credited with orchestrating the Duke’s rise to power – drastically elevating her own status in the process. Born into humble circumstances in 1570, she married Sir Villiers, a member of Leicestershire’s minor landed gentry, as a teenager and gave birth to four children.
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