Mary & George

The impoverished English noble Mary Villiers sends her attractive son George to France for training against his will. She hopes that he will make the rise to higher circles in this way.

Mary wants to boot out King James' favorite, Sir Somerset. In order for her son George to get the chance to attract the king, she asks for an audience with Queen Anne.

Somerset puts obstacles in George's way, whereupon Mary decides to intervene. But her intervention ends in a debacle: Mary and George become the laughing stock of the court.

King James travels to Scotland, George and his younger brother Kit are allowed to accompany him.

England is in trouble because Sir Walter Raleigh has attacked Spanish troops in South America. As a diplomatic newcomer at the English court, George gets caught between the fronts.