| [00:00.427] | But years later, one king had different ideas for the park. |
| [00:08.867] | James I didn't cut the finest of figures, |
| [00:12.336] | yet he was fond of the finest of clothes, |
| [00:14.674] | especially the best silk. |
| [00:18.315] | Always short of cash, |
| [00:19.386] | James realised that silk, |
| [00:20.690] | a great luxury of the day, |
| [00:23.217] | might be an excellent way to make some serious money. |
| [00:27.335] | On the land that is now the gardens of Buckingham Palace, |
| [00:30.575] | James decided to create a homespun English silk industry |
| [00:35.005] | with the help of a particular tree, the mulberry. |
| [00:39.430] | In 1608, James I had dozens of mulberry trees planted here 1608 |
| [00:43.682] | and introduced these Silkworms. |
| [00:48.762] | And the idea was to harvest the silkworms' thread from the cocoon |
| [00:54.437] | and use it to spin silk. |
| [00:55.808] | Trouble is, he chose the wrong kind of mulberry tree. |
| [00:58.699] | This, the black mulberry. |
| [01:01.547] | And the silkworms just weren't interested. |
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