Young Chris hi Danny it's a pleasure it's a way to give me some money
academic love this is nice anyway this is another proper gun this is Berkeley
castle this is where king edward ii was brought love it and we're gonna have a
look in here you go first are we gonna yeah in here we're gonna
have a look in the room where he stayed Harker was just where he's from this is
it yeah well you might call it a throne that's her anyway now so you've locked
the door on me of yeah okay very slippery that was Chris I thought
we were pals can I have some bread and water how it is so talk to me I mean ed
what's the King yep so what's he doing in here
well dis Isabella and Roger Mortimer as you know they captured Edward the second
and it was they really who brought about Edwards downfall
he was a king who allowed himself to be dominated by favorites but kings through
time of had favorites oh they suddenly how I need favorites
why random and well but of course there was something else going on yeah that
made it you know it was obvious that maybe his favorites were there for more
than they should have been I think that Edward was not vilified necessarily
because of homosexuality what really mattered was the intensity and the
exclusivity of those relationships and that was fiercely resented so what do
you think they did with edward ii after they captured him well I fear they
killed him well they said to him you need to resign the throne and he agreed
to abdicate really yeah positional Shoei would have been in this was that this
was the self just actual room yeah it's it really it is so he would have had
bars on the windows and according to one story underneath this there was a kind
of pit a dungeon and they filled it with stinking rotting
corpses da show you live at this smells and the stench was unbearable he said
this moment this would have been the actual room that that he was in you know
that anxiety and that fear and that feeling of failure you know I think a
terrible feeling of failure I mean a man who had been king of England and here he
was reduced to a miserable prisoner here we have a transcript of a 14th century
chronicle this describes how they treated edward ii and what ultimately
happened to him the said late king was shut up in a closed chamber where his
jailers rushed in the nighttime into this room and with great and heavy
feather beds mattresses smothered him thrusting and hollow instrument like the
end of a trumpet or glister pipe into his fundament and through it a red-hot
olive oil during a minute they may just get his strike he's been stabbed with a
trumpet well I mean into his fundament where was that work well sure miss yep
so his house yep okay sure it should we go through this again just so it's clear
thrusting and hollow instrument like the end of a trumpet or glister pipe into
his fundament and through it a red-hot iron up into his bowels here in this
cell in Berkeley castle Chuck a mattress I have reason that they put a trumpet up
his bottle bottle and glass which means bum alright and and then and then not
only that they then stick a red-hot poker as well so they're so they've
really just got in and have gone crackers on him they've got all medieval
round him as what they would say well most people think that it was actually
through suffocation but he was killed and that this may have been a straw
ten years after Edward's death which had some relation to the rumors that he was
gay
I'm gonna be over Samba mode I know some point he was gonna take a little bit of
an emotional dip I'm very proud of that what he'd committed to the man that he
was born to be which was probably a gay man and being in the medieval period
would have been impossible especially a man in his position all my other
ancestors up to this point of touched me in certain ways but they've been very
brave people and they've stood by their beliefs but this one how do you juggle
this but it is a bit like a soap opera I will say that they're their lives their
lovers the triangles you'll know it's up to this point I've sort of been
re-enacting stuff and living like I'm dressing like um
I'm glad we're not reenacting anything from it with the second
glad there's no trumpets learn about
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