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‘...Isabella may even have become pregnant by Mortimer’ Wait, we’re just dropping that kind of bomb with no source, no evidence, no nothing? Aiiiiight...
— Oct 09, 2020 12:46PM
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Welp, Isabella is dead and there’s still like 60 pages, not sure how Doherty is planning to fill them. Also, I can’t believe he’s using the expression on a medieval funeral sculpture for his conspiracy theory like... Come on dude...
— Oct 10, 2020 06:17PM
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This chapter ends with 3 pages of speculation on Hugh le Despenser’s possible sexual abuse of Isabella of France. Doherty has absolutely no evidence to back this up except his gut feeling. I find it sensationalist and in poor taste tbh. Also 13!yo Edward III didn’t ‘supported’ his mom, she essentially kidnapped him lol
— Oct 03, 2020 06:44PM
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« In 1319 Isabella had almost been captured by the Scots. The de Spencers decided once again to put the Queen in danger. » Is he... Is implying that the Despenser had any influence over Scottish politics?? What??
— Oct 02, 2020 06:27PM
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A confusing chapter, which makes sense considering it covers a period of almost 15 years in 33 pages. We also learn that the french revolution might have been caused by Jacques de Molay's famous curse, maybe? Not sure what Doherty was trying to imply here, which is also true for many other passages of this book.
— Oct 02, 2020 04:57PM
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Lots of weird stuff and innacuracies in this chapter but Doherty has a more nuanced vision of Edward II than I expected so there’s that..
— Sep 28, 2020 05:15PM
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‘Isabella was a fairy-tale princess. The chroniclers attest to her loveliness, to her beautiful blonde hair (...) and her slightly arabic features inherited from her mother.’ So many things wrong with those two sentences, I’m almost impressed...
— Sep 27, 2020 10:13AM
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Oct 09, 2020 12:56PM
It's 2020 and historians still don't fact check! Sad!
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...yikesI seem to remember that Ian Mortimer and maybe Warner too think it's plausible Isabella was pregnant with Mortimer's child but they actually discussed WHY they thought that. Tho, of course, they both doubt Mortimer and Isabella were in a relationship now.
Lisa wrote: "...yikesI seem to remember that Ian Mortimer and maybe Warner too think it's plausible Isabella was pregnant with Mortimer's child but they actually discussed WHY they thought that. Tho, of cours..."
The darnest part of it is that I actually find it very believable that Isabella would have gotten pregnant by Mortimer and miscarried the baby or at least that it was an anxiety for the people around her, probably including Edward III but like...The way he just randomly throw that in, without even explaining what would have happened with that pregnancy is truly bizarre to me.
Yeah, it's certainly plausible that Isabella could've gotten pregnant but... it's something you need to discuss the evidence for as well as explaining what happened with it! Did you ever see me break down in tears when reading Emma Campion's ridiculous novel about Alice Perrers because of the ridiculous subplot about Isabella and Mortimer's lovechild surviving to be a vague but serious threat against Edward III (because apparently Isabella of France is SO WILY AND POWERFUL she's just going to disinherit her son, his children, the Lancaster line to foist her bastard on the throne?) and the main reason he and Alice ever fall desperately in love with each other?
