Teenage Edward III Crowned: His Mother Runs England Behind the Scenes
Edward III was crowned at fourteen. His mother Isabella and her lover Mortimer ran everything. They'd murdered Edward's father by shoving a red-hot poker through his bowels. Edward played along for three years. Then at seventeen, he and a few friends entered Nottingham Castle through a secret tunnel. They arrested Mortimer in his bedroom while Isabella screamed outside the door. Mortimer was hanged. Isabella lived under house arrest for twenty-eight years. Edward ruled for fifty.
February 1, 1327
699 years ago
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