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Welcome to True Spies.

The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time.

Suddenly out of the dark that's appear in Laub.

You'll meet the people who live life undercover.

What do they know?

What are their skills?

And what would you do in their position?

Vengeance felt good. Seeing these people pay for what they'd done felt righteous.

True spies from Spyscape Studios, wherever you get your podcasts.

What does Sputnik have to do with student loans? How did a set of trembling hands end the

Soviet Union? How did inflation kill moon bases? And how did a former president decide to run

for a second non-consecutive term? These are among the topics we deal with on the My History

Can Beat Up Your Politics Podcast.

We tell stories of history that relate to today's news events.

Give a listen.

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics wherever you get podcasts.

In September of 1327, the Anointed King of England, Edward II, son of the great Edward Longshanks, Hammer of the Scots,

had been languishing in prison for the better part of a year after his wife, Queen Isabella,

and her counsellor Roger Mortimer, seized power, forcing him to abdicate to his son, Edward III.

Then he turned up dead, with no apparent mark of physical harm on his royal person.

Strangely, rather than sending for the royal physician, a commoner was secretly engaged

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