Royalist father and Roundhead son; being the memoirs of the first and second earls of Denbigh, 1600-1675 . n. The Queen, Anne of Denmark, bestowedher favour upon him, and always called him my kinddogge, while the King addressed him in most endear-ing terms, nicknaming him Steenie, in allusion tothe Acts of the Apostles, where St. Stephen is spokenof as having the face of an angel. Appointed Cupbearer to the King one year, he wasmade Master of the Horse the next. In 1616 hewas given the garter, and shortly afterwards created,in quick succession, Viscount, Earl, and Marquis ofBuckingham. He was
Royalist father and Roundhead son; being the memoirs of the first and second earls of Denbigh, 1600-1675 . n. The Queen, Anne of Denmark, bestowedher favour upon him, and always called him my kinddogge, while the King addressed him in most endear-ing terms, nicknaming him Steenie, in allusion tothe Acts of the Apostles, where St. Stephen is spokenof as having the face of an angel. Appointed Cupbearer to the King one year, he wasmade Master of the Horse the next. In 1616 hewas given the garter, and shortly afterwards created,in quick succession, Viscount, Earl, and Marquis ofBuckingham. He was admitted into the royal house-hold on terms almost of equality and treated by theKing and the Prince of Wales with the greatestfamiliarity. Buckingham was not one to rise alone, nor indeedwas his advancement the only object of Lady Villierssambition. She herself soon mounted high in the estima-tion of James, by her shrewdness and knowledge ofthe world. At a feast at Hatfield House, at which theKing was present, we find her seated at a table apart,with the Countess of Suffolk, then also in high favour,. MARY BEAUMONT, COUNTESS OF BUCKINGHAM FROM THE PAINTING BY MYTENS THE KINGS FAVOURITE 11 and special honours being paid to her as the favouritesmother. Not long after this she was made Countess ofBuckingham in her own right, though her husbandremained a mere knight. Her patent was antedatedso as to give her precedence over the wives of the fourother earls created at the same time. She soon obtained such an ascendancy over the weakold King, and such control over the affairs of State, thatshe and her son became the sole dispensers of royalbounties, and no places could be disposed of without herconsent. Her other sons were speedily ennobled, Jack, theeldest, being made Viscount Purbeck, and Christopher,the third. Earl of Anglesey. Her son-in-law, WilliamFeilding, was made Comptroller in 1621, and Masterof the Wardrobe in 1622, having been Deputy Mastersince 1619. In 1620 he had been
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