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[00:01.31]Gaveston was so magnificently dressed
[00:03.98]one observer noted, that "he more resembled the god Mars than an ordinary mortal."
[00:09.37]Isabella was only 12, but she knew how a King's wife should be treated
[00:13.67]And it was clear that her rightful place at Edward's side had already been taken, by Gaveston
[00:22.01]Isabella wasn't the only one who noticed the relationship between Edward and Piers
[00:27.78]Her French uncles went home in a rage
[00:30.66]insulted that Edward would have given some of their wedding presents to Gaveston
[00:37.07]A chronicler of the time wrote
[00:39.35]"I do not remember to have heard that one man so loved another."
[00:48.09]Not only was Isabella finding that there were three people in her marriage
[00:52.06]but Gaveston's preening and waspish presence
[00:54.88]was having an equally corrosive effect on the King's relationship with his nobles
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