Queen Isabella: A Gothic Tale
Derek Wilson looks at the life of a French princess, who married and helped depose an English king during a tumultuous period of Anglo-French relations that was to end in the Hundred Years War.
Mother, you are suspected for his death,
And, therefore, we commit you to the Tower
Till further trial be made thereof.
If you be guilty, though I be your son,
Think not to find me slack or pitiful.The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward II, King of England, with the Tragical Fall of Proud Mortimer, Act V, Scene 6.
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