The She-Wolf Queen Who Overthrew Edward II | The Plantagenets | Real Royalty 

Isabella sure knew how to keep her mouth shut and play the long game.

Edward at his coronation: *chatting non stop with his boyfriend* Everyone else: 👀 w a t

I’m going to take a shot in the dark that Gavinston and the king were more then “pals”

Nonchalantly eating an apple while Dispensar getting torn apart, the shewolf was a tough cookie..

Never mess with a mom and her cubs you will get burned, that's what Isabella basically said and did and God bless her for it

In my opinion, the story of Isabella and Roger Mortimer and their overthrow of her husband is the best example in medieval English history of real life being more incredible than Hollywood. This had everything: a battle for a throne, sex, scandal, war, and a cast of characters no screenwriter could come up with. Kinda surprised no one (at least since Christopher Marlowe) has made this into a movie or a show.

I've been on a War Of The Roses research binge for weeks. So fascinating. You can't make this stuff up, just legendary.

I love the story of Isabella. There's nothing like a woman scorned but being married off at 12 to a homosexual man, forced to watch his dalliance with his boyfriend for many years and then having her children taken off her without him doing anything.... OHHH NOO! Feel the wrath! And rightly so.

The French nobles were also incensed that Edward gave all their expensive wedding gifts for the king and new queen to Gaveston. Edward ignored his new bride and spent all his time with Gaveston, which did her a great dishonour. Imagine having to deal with all this, in a strange country as a 12 year old bride.

I love how Gavaston wasn't executed bc he and the king were (likely) gay, he was executed because the king was literally too gay to function when his boyfriend was in the country. All Edward had to do was do his job and get shit done.

"obsession with his friend" funny way of saying this man was in love with his best friend lol

I mean, we kinda know that Edward and Gaveston were in a relationship since at Isabella and Edward’s wedding he was wearing more than purple. He was wearing her jewels, her queen’s jewels to be exact. He was sitting next to the king, and it didn’t look like some party, it looked like Edward and Gaveston’s wedding.

The narrator is enjoying every second of this gruelling history! 🤣

I kept thinking he was calling those men "The Dispensers" like a feudal version of the A team, lol

Isabella is a total badass, I love her

I love anything with Dan Jones in it. He explains history in such a fascinating way. My favorite phrase is "banged up in the Tower."

I knew Edward and Gaveston were more than friends when he named him Earl of Cornhole...

Looking at the comments section, I think we all came to the very same accurate conclusion. LOL

Edward: *puts Gaveston's coat of arms up where his bride's should be and spends the entire coronation talking to Gaveston* *Is willing to literally give up what he believes is his God-given powers just so he doesn't have to lose Gaveston* Historians: Hmm yup seems hetero

*Edward II, talking about Piers Gaveston* "Oh, he's just a friend." *Isabella of France channeling Biz Markie from the future* "YOU! You got what I nee-eed, but you say he's 'just a friend'. But you say he's 'just a friend'."

Appreciate the fact that they speak French and mot English with some plummy upper class accent.

Never mess with a she-wolf.

Yea. His “Friend”. Good ollllllle Gaveston. Just close buddies those two

“Lancaster has Edward over a barrel”...this angered him as that was Gaveston’s job

Banished to France for being a bad influence lmao

Queen Isabella is badass, the power moves she makes are just beautiful

Narrator: He’s brought here because unlike Warwick Castle, Blacklow Hill is Lancaster’s land. Lancaster: Tell Edward....I want him to know it was me.

If you watch closely you can see a documentary in between the advertisements.

It was only a matter of time before Professor Jones uttered the phrase, "Banged up in the tower."

Them speaking french is a really nice touch

Two bros chillin in a throne room, 5 feet apart cause they’re not gay.

"Friend" "Buddy" "Mate"

"Lancaster had Edward over a barrel." Not the barrel Edward had hoped for.

WHOAAAHHH ..... man I’m glad I found this channel.... Gotta pause and think for a second..... Isabella married this dude as she was a 12 year old little girl..... one can only imagine the psychological pain and abuse she went through to grow up into the “ She Wolf “

It's never a good idea to mess with a she-wolfs cubs. She will fight to the death for them.

Say what you want, Ed loved me best.

Why was Edward so obsessed with his friend? we sure he was just... a ..... “friend”? i meaaan 😬

Glad that Isabella took up for herself and her kids.

One rumor that Mortimer was Isabella’s lover and he calls him her lover 8 times but refuses to call Galveston Edwards lover. 😂

You mean his boyfriend

Anyone who snatches a mother's children from her deserves everything that's coming to them.

Thank you for the visual story telling. That's what makes documentaries special.

When Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, learned that Gaveston had nicknamed him "the black dog," he said, "If I am a dog, then he can beware my fangs." Nice job, Guy, anticipating almost word for word Shylock's line from Merchant of Venice by nearly 300 years.

I don't know why the presenter keep calling Edward and Gaveston "friends"? They were LOVERS!

Note that at the coronation feast G. is wearing a crown.He was the king and Edward the Queen.

This king was almost as bad as the commercial breaks on this video.

Hell has no fury like a Woman's Scorn! Damn

Absolutely loved this, incredible documentary, thank you so much!❤️

Enough about Eddie & his boy toy.... let's talk about what a badass Queen Isabella was! Sis was making moves left & right 👑 SheWolf is so fitting!

What they fail to mention in the documentary though is that Isabelle while abroad and away from England and her husband, goes to the court of Hainault to seek aid from Count William against her husband. He gives her an armada of ships to invade England in exchange for the marriage of her son to Phiippa, the Counts daughter. That's how she was able to do it. Crafty!

For sure they were more than just friends... They were lovers

“Piers Gaveston. Edward’s BEST FRIEND.” *People are gay, Steven.*

The story was pretty well told by Maurice Druon in his The Accused Kings series of his. From the French point of observation certainly, since Isabella was a French princess.

damn, isabella is a stone cold badass.

The power and wealth of the present is still based upon the brutality of the past.

The thing people fail to realise is that Isabella was in love with her husband untill she realised he loved another ... A guy which would have been more embarrassing , and he treated her with total disrespect and lack of kidness to her feelings

Love this series thank you

They call Isabela the She Wolf, but she suffered for years with so many things. Sorry, but Edward was a tool.

Superb analysis and narration.

Excellent presenter who clear loves his job! Great post!

I’m a bit surprised at the pic/ representation in this show of him. Apparently, he was tall, handsome, muscular, and had the golden red hair of a true Plantagenet. He was good at martial arts. He did have a slight cast in his eye, inherited from his father, apparently, but they said he was very good looking. At least, that’s what all contemporary accounts said. I guess they would know.🤷‍♀️

I think Isabella turned on her husband and the Despensers for messing with her kids and lands. She put up with a lot before that. Tiger mUm /she-wolf.

this is one of four part `s series Britain`s bloody crown !MASTEPIECE . I recommend watch all four parts.

Great content and convincing acting. Good to have the hot poker story put in it’s place, as it were. Thank you.

Edward II was an ineffective King and Isabella was used and abused. They took her children and she's called a She Wolf. You bet she's a She Wolf. I'd be the same if someone took my children. Edward would never change, he brought it on himself. If it wasn't Isabella, it would have been someone else. But because she was a woman it was doubly bad. Double standards, they stink.

I love Isabella!!! Never underestimate an angry woman

Great idea, documentaries on royal life. Many don’t like to read like I do, so these are great. Interesting, shocking and true. They say who cares about the past ? Well you can learn from the past, try not too name same mistakes, but it’s about what life was like centuries ago. We complain about things we don’t have, when a lot back then we’re creative and inventive. While today everything is on a screen. I love reading and docs, But like reading before I see documentaries.

Those horses that Isabella and Roger are riding are beautiful!

Documentary ruined by relentless ads!!

And he was an ancestor of mine...OMG!!

Very Well Done!

WOW! 👏 what a great documentary!!!! I couldnt stop watching! The She Wolf didnt play when it came to her kids!

This should be called England's bloodiest dynasty

Isabella is gorgeous in this documentary 😍😍😍

that hugh despenser actor is pretty a good likeness to the portraits

Very interesting. Thank you.

Brilliant presentation. My interest in British/Scottish history began a hundred years later...until I found your channel. Now I'll find the books to read. Bravo. PS Ok...Mortimer:s roar was hot as hell. :-) ♡

I think the words your looking for is “cuddle buddies” mate. Or “bromance”.

It surely can't be that hard to get a hold of the padded garments that went under the chainmail can it? Otherwise the maille is pointless. Edward II was described as tall and athletic, if disolute and indecisive, though also obstinate. He was besotted with Gaveston due to the high likelyhood of them being lovers, gay for want of a better word. Lancaster may have been able to enter the Kings presence in armour, but I doubt he'd be let in wearing a sword, and to draw any kind of weapon in front of the King was a crime know as lese majeste. A good way to get locked away or even executed.

Great video, I really enjoyed the 18 ads throughout

Technically Edward II abdicated under duress. I suppose that could be seen as an act of parliament, but it takes on a different symbolic meaning. The legitimacy of Mortimer's reign, if it had any at all, was based on the fact that succession followed with the King's consent to his rightful heir.

Edward and his "friend"

Sooo….I take it Edward and Gaviston were having their own special kind of sword fights behind the heavy doors of the royal bed chamber-

I love the narrator british accent. His explaination is v clear. Making history not boring...

Edward II sure didn't know who he wad dealing with at the end of his reign. Queen Isabella was a woman not to cross. She really was a "She Wolf"

We do not know how he died or even if he died in 1327. There are strong stories he escaped to Ireland and then Italy and died in Italy many years later.

Edward II was the worst king in English history. Being king of England was the luckiest job in Europe at the time. England was united unlike France, Germany, and Spain. Although the English nobility were powerful, they weren't semi-independant monarchs like the various sovereign dukes and counts of Germany and France. The English crown had direct control of their whole realm. Not only was Edward king of England and Wales, he was sovereign duke of Aquitaine, and count of Ponthieu, which he inherited from mother. Stupid Edward was willingly to give Ponthieu to his lover Gaveston. Cruel Edward was willing to persecute his own nieces to sate the greed of the Despensers. Foolish Edward lost his throne to benefit his favorites.

8:00 A group of nobles walk up to a king of England and threaten him with swords and then are able to go back to everyday lives with their heads still on their shoulders! That's treason! Back then many nobles lost their heads for far lesser crimes against kings. This Lancaster character must have one powerful figure to directly challenge a king. The fact that he was the grandson of King Henry the Third could have given him the boldness to carry out this act of defiance, knowing the King wouldn't dare to take measures against him without starting a civil war. I wonder what King Henry the Eighth would have done in this situation.

Remember the scene where the father throw the son`s boyfriend through the window?

I enjoyed that very much learned a lot thank you

I wish there will be today a pay back time like in those medieval times. Edward suffered but he got his revenge, Isabella was devastated but she put her enemies in chains. We have tyrants today but they don't go down. All I can say is that those men,those people must have had a different DNA than ours. People rose to dethrone a king, we can't rise to send a tyrant to hell. I wish we were like the medieval people.

Such a mind blowing history😖🥶

Poor Edward got hot-pokered five times in the first two minutes. : (

Honestly, despite the changes, I like this episode of Game of Thrones

Brilliant thanks

Hell hath no fury than a wife scorned.

Wow ! These people could recreate that scene in 36:14 but couldn't do the same with Edward & Gaveston.

I find it somewhat funny that Queen Isabella looks sorta like a Medieval version of Princess Leia from Star Wars. Go figure. ☺️

Loved all the ads - thanks =(

I found my mind wandering looking at Dan Jones, commentator. He’s so distracting in so many ways! Intelligent, good story telling, great wardrobe, but the bottom line is I have to stop and backtrack when I get caught up in looking at him!! He’s a smooth operator! Love it!