Epox!

Hello and welcome back to Epox. We're in the first studio today as you can see because the second studio had to be used for something else.

But we've done a fair few in this first studio now. We've got the bespoke video wall for Epox for just such an occasion.

So let's get straight back into it. If you remember last time we left off the story where Edward VIII, the great warrior king, this son of York. He just died out of the blue. He was in

sort of his forties and he'd let himself get corpulent. He'd lived a bit of a degenerate life.

And as often happened in the pre-modern age when there's not you know great doctors

and no real medicines to speak of if you get ill and your body just doesn't fight it off that's it

you die so people often died younger uh whether he had some sort of heart disease or we don't know

a stroke or strokes

Anyway he went from being effectively perfectly fine to a few days later dead and it's a massive problem because the heir to the throne is eldest son his oldest legitimate son

Another Edward Edward the fifth is only like 12 years old, in his minority, as they

say, a boy king, not old enough to rule in his own right.

Sometimes there are examples of when someone not much older is able to take the reins.

I mean, Edward the fourth himself was only 18 years old when he was thrown into the maelstrom of events onto the stage of history,

and he was able to pick up the mantle and fight for himself and lead a faction and all that sort of thing, at 18.

You know, like Alexander, the Great, was only 18 or so, 18, 19.

Augustus was something like 17 or 18 or 19 years old.

William the Conqueror was about 15 years old when his father died.

He was just about had his own mind, his own will and his own mind and the ability to

bend other men to his will at the age of 15.

That's remarkably young, isn't it?

But 12, no, it's too young.

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