Alison Weir & Queen Isabella of England (7min)

Isabella of France, Edward II’s queen, is one of the most notorious femme fatales in history. The poet Thomas Gray described her using Shakespeare’s epithet ‘the she-wolf of France’ whilst Christopher Marlowe called her 'that unnatural queen'. How did Isabella earn such a reputation? Alison Weir joins presenter Jenni Murray to talk about her biography of Isabella, her marriage to Edward II when she was only 12 years old, her love affair with Roger Mortimer, and the accusation made against her of murder and regicide.