He was the handsomest man in England, and he certainly caught the eye of James I. James called him his "Sweet Steenie," and his "sweet child and wife."
Soon he was the most powerful man in England, too.
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Pictured: Portrait of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, from the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1625
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