Hello and welcome to Queer's Fact. My name is Eli. I'm Alice. I'm Irene.

We are a queer history podcast coming out on the first and 15th of every month,

talking about people, places and things from around the world and throughout time.

Today we are talking about the 14th century King of England, Edward II.

Music Edward the second. So in terms of content warnings for this episode, the only really big, scary one is that we

have a bunch of executions, and the details of those executions are somewhat relevant.

Apart from that, there's some periodypical

homophobia, there's children getting married in a we're nobles sort of way, and there's one swear.

Okay. So if any of that sounds like something you'd rather not listen to, we have plenty of

other episodes with different content and hardly any of them have executions.

So the background to the world that Edward II is born into is the reign of his father.

Any guesses as to what his father's called?

Edward, the first?

Yes.

Yay!

Good job.

That sounded super rehearsed.

It really did.

So Edward I was very well thought of at the time and generally continues to be.

So he's really the image of the contemporary idea of what a king should be.

He was very well respected.

He was a little bit frightening.

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