The one constant of James' childhood was his tutor, the esteemed scholar George Buchanan. Buchanan's aim was to turn James into a god-fearing, Protestant King who ... James and holding him hostage.

The "treatments" were brutal: straitjackets, chains and restraints, and James' Powders, which contained arsenic and only made the symptoms worse. By 1811 George could no longer function as king.