We were delighted to welcome Lucy Hughes-Hallett to talk about her latest book, The Scapegoat, an extraordinary history of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham.
As King James I’s favourite, Buckingham was also his confidant, gatekeeper, advisor and lover. When Charles I succeeded his father, he was similarly enthralled and made Buckingham his best friend and mentor.
A cultural historian, biographer and novelist, Lucy was the winner of The Baillie Gifford Prize for her previous biography The Pike, also named in 2020 as the Biography of the Decade in the Sunday Times.
In 2021 she was also the Chair of the Judges of the International Booker Prize.
All profits from the evening were donated to the Corby branch of Northamptonshire Mind.
Held in The Tapestry Room, Boughton House, by kind permission of The Duke of Buccleuch