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Chapter One
Isabella of France was beautiful but yet maniplative and was out to get what she wanted but she didn't always started out like this. Isabella was a french princess, beautiful and educated. She was barely 12 years old when she was to marry England's 24 year old King Edward the Second. This might sound strange to us in the modern, a young girl still a child married to an older man but this what Royals did at the time. Have their children especially their girls marry very young.
She was the daughter of Joan 1 of Navarrae and King Philip IV of France and her three brothers Louis, Philip and Charles were all Kings of France. France and England had a turblent past and present. , they were always fighting each othher and Isabella was the peace treaty.
Isabella like most royals was also educated a great deal, she was beautiful, smart , elegenat and graceful and even at 12 years old she was a great beauty. Men would have fallen for her but it was not another men she wanted but the love of her husband Edward the 2 of England.
She had no idea that when she arrived in England there will be three people in her marriage. Her husband, her and his favourite , a man ! This man wasn't even noblity, he was commoner who Edward bought to ranks. But what could she do, she was a woman and it wasn't a marriage of love but of poltical means and she was just 12 years old.
That was about to chaneg in a few years.
Edward was handsome enough but he was weak and he was a relucatant king and was unconvental because of his romantic attachment to Piers Gaveston.
Edward and Isabella married on January 25 th 1308 but it would be an unhappy wedding.
Isabella wrote to her brother in France in the letter she tells her brother.
Dearest Brother, my King, Please save me from this awful match, the king has no desire for me. He has a desire for his favorite a commoner , Can you believe this., I am a Princess, I was born to be queen but yet he dismisses me like I am some commoner. Brother please get me out of this entrappment of a marriage and arrange another marriage for me. Please I beg of you,
love your sister
Isabella
The letter had taken some time to reach King Louis and his brothers in France, they were concerned of how they were going to deal with the situation. Should they declare war and arrange other marriage for their sister.
Louis wanted to trend waters, he would do what he can to help his sister but he hoped she and Edward would work it out for France and England's sake but he was worried about Isabella . In her letters she sound unhappy.
Isabella was so unhappy, she did not like the fact that Edward was not paying attention to her. She may have been tweleve years old but she knew how a royal marriage she how she was supposed to be treated. Isabella did not resemble her mother who died when she was quite young but resemble her father Philip who did not sure any weakness in his life. He Philip
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Non-FictionIsabella of France was just 12 years old when she married King Edward the second of England but what she didn't know that she would be replace by the King's favorite, fed up of Edward's neglect and weakness, she leave...