Image 1: Prince Henry on Horseback, by Robert Peake the Elder, c. 1606–8 (Photo: Nick Hugh McCann © Parham Park Ltd)
Image 2: James VI and I, miniature by Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1609–15 (Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017)
Image 3: Queen Anne, in her pomp, by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017)
Image 4: Prince Henry, aged two, artist unknown (In a Private Collection)
Image 5: Prince Charles, the future Charles I, by Robert Peake the Elder, c. 1610 (National Galleries of Scotland/Getty Images)
Image 6: Princess Elizabeth, Electress Palatine, later Queen of Bohemia, artist unknown, 1613 (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)
Image 7: David Murray (Unknown. Sir David Murray of Gorthy, 1567–1629. Poet. Scottish National Gallery/David Laing bequest to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Gifted in 2009)
Image 8: Stirling Castle (By DeFacto (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons)
Image 9: Henry practising his signature from his schoolbook (Wren TC MS r.7.23, v.1, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College Cambridge)
Image 10: John Harington, 2nd Baron Harington of Exton, c. 1613–14 (artist unknown, © The Trustees of the British Museum)
Image 11: Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of Essex, close friend of Henry (ART Collection/Alamy Stock Photo)
Image 12: Robert Cecil, 1st earl of Salisbury (ART Collection/Alamy Stock Photo)
Image 13: Sir Walter Ralegh, miniature by Nicholas Hilliard (Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)
Image 14: Nonsuch Palace (Author photo)
Image 15: Sir Thomas Chaloner and Elizabeth Fleetwood in St Nicholas Church, Chiswick, a full Jacobean tomb reeking of memento mori: the skull sitting between them (Author photo)
Image 16: Henry’s astrolabe (© The Trustees of the British Museum)
Image 17: Ben Jonson, by Abraham van Blijenberch, c. 1617 (Ian Dagnall/Alamy Stock Photo)
Image 18: Inigo Jones, Anthony van Dyck, 1636 (The National Trust Photolibrary/Alamy Stock Photo)
Image 19: St James’s Palace (Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)
Image 20: O, my America, my new found land – Henry’s map of the Chesapeake Bay area (Map of James and York Rivers/British Library, London, UK/© British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images)
Image 21: Henry in Roman armour and opulent toga (No.3903 Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594–1612), eldest son of King James I of England (VI of Scotland), Oliver, Isaac (c. 1565–1617)/Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, UK/Bridgeman Images)
Image 22: Maurice of Nassau (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
Image 23: Henri IV of France (DEA/G. DAGLI ORTI/Getty Images)
Image 24: Henry in armour, by Isaac Oliver, c. 1610–12 (Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017)
Image 25: Henry as Oberon, by Inigo Jones (Final design for Oberon’s dress, c. 1611 (pen & ink on paper), Jones, Inigo (1573–1652)/Collection of the Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, UK/© Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth/Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees/Bridgeman Images)
Image 26: Henry’s bronzes – the pacing horse he had in his hands when he died (Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017)
Image 27: From the ornate Letters Patent creating Henry, Prince of Wales, 4 June 1610 (James I creating his son Henry Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester; witnessed by Charles, Duke of York, and many other peers ‘in pleno Parliamento’./British Library, London, UK/© British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images)
Image 28: Richmond Palace, ‘A view from the south-west by an unknown seventeenth-century hand’, (detail) (Photo: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
Image 29: Frontispiece/title page of Coryate’s Crudities (Title Page from ‘Coryats Crudities Hastily gobled vp in five Moneth trauells …’ by Thomas Coryat, 1611 (coloured engraving), English School, (17th century)/British Library, London, UK/Bridgeman Images)
Image 30: Frederick of the Palatine, miniature by Isaac Oliver (Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017)
Image 31: Henry’s ship – The Prince Royal carried his sister Elizabeth and her new husband Frederick from England in March, 1613 (The Embarkation at Margate of Elector Palatine and Princess Elizabeth, 1623 (oil on canvas), Willaerts, Adam (1577–1669)/Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2017/Bridgeman Images)
Image 32: Henry’s effigy (Copyright © Dean and Chapter of Westminster)
Image 33: Henry’s funeral bier (© The Trustees of the British Museum)
Image 34: Prince of Wales feathers (Crest of Henry, Prince of Wales. Emblem with sun design./British Library, London, UK/© British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images)