Hello and welcome to another episode of Epox where I have finished my series all about the late Roman Republic

and I should be changing the topic entirely now.

I'll be going back to my series all about the British monarchy, English monarchy.

If you remember back in episode 147, I got up to the age of Edward II.

So I shall be carrying on from there talking about all about Edward the 3rd. It's easy to remember if you ever try and commit all the monarchs to memory.

You've got three Edwards in a row, Longshanks, Edward the second and then Edward the third.

So three Edwards in a row.

The grandfather is great, Edward the first, Edward

the second, not so great, pretty ignominious actually, and then Edward the third is great

again, great in inverted commas. He's got a shout for being perhaps one of the greatest

English monarchs of all time, but some people do pick him as the best English king of all time. There's a few up there.

Depends how you measure it, doesn't it? But he ruled for a very long time, 50 odd years.

He came to the crown quite young. And although he didn't live to be spectacularly old,

he did have a good innings, fairly good innings for the early middle ages.

And there's lots of martial achievements. He was a great sort of warrior king, but there are also some stains on his memory as well.

But he's certainly up there with one of the best, you know, with Edward

the first or Richard or Henry V, one of those guys. He's one of my favourites. I probably

wouldn't put him first, but he's definitely a great story because there's so many events

that go on. One thing I would say, if you've watched, if you've been watching my previous series

all about the late Republic and Caesar and Pompey, I went into that story in lots and lots

of detail. This one I'm going to zoom out a bit, try and do the whole of Edward III's life

in one episode here.

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