The Iconography of Divine Right The most telling visual representations of James's theory of the divine right of kings belonged not to his reign but to his son's monument to his father, the nine canvases by Peter Paul Rubens Charles I commissioned and had installed in the ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace. This view, from slightly to the left of the entrance, faces the royal throne, at the other end of the double-cube room, where the king would sit.