伊莎贝拉与玛格丽特27

But now they were behaving

exactly like Edward and Despenser before them

For two years Isabella and her lover ruled the country with a vice-like grip

meeting opposition with brutal suppression

And all the time Isabella kept her son, King Edward III, closely by her side

monitoring his friends and allowing him no freedom to act alone

Marlowe would later describe Isabella's son

as "a lamb, encompassed by wolves"

But by 1330 Edward was 17

and the she-wolf was about to discover that her offspring had claws of his own

Isabella's day of reckoning came at Nottingham Castle

She had already become suspicious that

her son was beginning to resist her control

So when the royal party took up residence here

they had the guards redoubled about them