伊莎贝拉与玛格丽特25

What's certain is that it was Edward's death

- a murder that supposedly took place in this room at Berkeley

- that sealed Isabella's reputation as a she-wolf

Just 30 years later, the chronicler Geoffrey le Baker

portrayed Edward as a Christ-like figure

betrayed and destroyed by a wife who was like the biblical Jezebel

- a tyrannical and ***ually corrupt Queen

manipulating her husband and son to impose evil on the kingdom

But these opinions were formed in hindsight

When Isabella knelt in prayer at her husband's funeral

she was still seen as the saviour of the nation

But though Isabella was a political animal through and through

there were limits to her political understanding

And now her overwhelming sense of entitlement

began to blunt her vision