Having found the funds to fit him out with a suitable wardrobe, she then sent him to the English Court, where he rapidly became the new favourite of King James I.

[4] Mary arranged George's marriage to the great heiress Katherine, Baroness de Ros, who was said to be the richest woman in England.

In July 1619, Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck was appointed keeper of Somerset House in London for Prince Charles, and Mary Villiers, Countess of Buckingham, frequently stayed there, or at Erith.

[5] In May 1623, she was at Goadby Marwood, with Viscount Purbeck, and wrote to the Earl of Middlesex with congratulations on the birth of his daughter Frances Cranfield.

Whatever her private feelings may have been, she behaved outwardly after his death in a manner which struck most people as cold and unfeeling.