Played by Nicholas Galitzine in ‘Mary & George’, opposite Julianne Moore, George Villiers, favorite of King James I, was described as “the handsomest-bodied man in all of England.”
Any English history buff will be familiar with the 1st Duke of Buckingham, also known as George Villiers. A notorious character whose ascendance from middling nobility to trusted favorite of one King James I—plotted by his mother, Mary—can only be described as meteoric.
He wasn’t an intellectual by any means, but he had charm and physical attributes sufficient to woo a royal. Godfrey Goodman, then the Bishop of Gloucester, described Villiers as “the handsomest-bodied man in all of England; his limbs so well compacted, and his conversation so pleasing, and of so sweet a disposition.” King James also considered George to be “as beautiful as a hunting leopard.” George was a Virgo Which figures.
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