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The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham rubber Last year was marred byFrom the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a stunning biography of one of the most flamboyant and enigmatic seventeenth century Englishmen at the heart of political and royal life. George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham (1592 1628), was loved by three monarchs. King James I of England, whose bed fellow he was, called him Steenie, after St Stephen whose face was as the face of an angel. Jamess son, later King Charles I, equally enthralled by