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19 - Isabella of France (3): The First She-Wolf
Isabella was now holding the hot potato that was the reigns of power, but England was to find out that her saviour could be corrupted just as easily as her predecessors
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"All of this has happened before, and all will happen again" from Battlestar Galactica (youtube)
Edward II's emo poetry - 'The Song of Edward that he himself made'
The First Scottish War of Independence (BBC History)
Treaty of Northampton, also known as the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton (wikipedia)
Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (wikipedia)
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