I don't know which aggravates me more: our crass, soulless, sporting-life culture, or the airhead kids who are at the same time its beneficiaries and its victims? Like LeBron James, the 17-year ...

James became ... the young king present, Crichton and Livingston murdered the 6th Earl of Douglas and his younger brother in a notorious evening that would become known as the Black Dinner.

The World of King James VI & I opens at National Galleries Scotland: Portrait in Edinburgh on 26 April. The display offers a special look into the life of the king who became the first to unite ...