Thursday, June 3, 2010

10. Queen Isabella by Alison Weir


An unbiased biography of Queen Isabella of France. I am too tired to give a full summary but historians have given Queen Isabella a terrible reputation throughout the centuries, and I wanted to know more about her. It shocked me that she was given such a bad reputation when King Edward was a horrific ruler. After being neglected for 20 years by her husband and watching the "favorites" rule, she escaped to France. She befriended Edward's enemies, invaded England, and put her son on the throne. Historians bash her for involving herself in an adulterous relationship with Edward's enemy Mortimer and for executing the Despensers, but compared to King Edward's reign, she's a god damn saint.