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hello everyone welcome back to the history of England episode 94 the reign of Isabella

Mortimer last time we finally got to the fall of Edward and his evil henchman the dispensers

Isabella and Mortimer had a most satisfactory Christmas it really couldn't have gone

any better on the other hand it's entirely possible that Mortimer had something of

an air bashing from his wife Joan Joan was a loosen your and surely had done her duty

twelve children keeping the home fires burning while Roger was hanging around in the

tower and wandering around the continent and what did she get for her pains her husband

appears back in the country with some fancy woman in tow they probably did meet in

November and who knows what was discussed but I suspect on the basis of no evidence

whatsoever the Joan was probably pretty resigned to the whole thing she outlived her husband

and was pretty keen to get his bones back for the family mantle piece so presumably

she wasn't too bitter and we should think a bit about the relationship between Isabella

and Mortimer the chroniclers in those early days always put Isabella to the fall and

not surprisingly after all she was the mother of the prince in whose name they were supposed

to be ruling and they were both understandably keen not to shove peoples noses in the fact

that they were both involved in an adulterous relationship which by and large as far as

the Queen was concerned at least wasn't smiled on but there can be little doubt that Mortimer

was a very active part of this two-person team it must have been his experience that had

led the invasion and as equally little doubt that while he kept his name out of things

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