伊莎贝拉与玛格丽特20

Now she was an independent player on the European stage

and she arranged the marriage of her son to Philippa, daughter of the count of Hainault

who brought troops and ships as her dowry

On 22nd September

at the head of 100 ships filled with soldiers

Isabella, Mortimer and Prince Edward set sail for England.

When Isabella stepped onto the Suffolk coast

she was taking up arms against her King and husband, with her lover at her side

She could hardly have been more openly defying the conventions of female virtue

And yet she wasn't met with outrage and vilification

Instead, she was greeted with open arms

While there was no alternative to Edward's rule

his people hadn't known how to resist

Isabella wasn't challenging him in her own name,

she, after all, had no right to the throne,

but in the name of their 13-year-old son, Prince Edward