[00:00.30][00:01.00]Now she was an independent player on the European stage[00:04.50]and she arranged the marriage of her son to Philippa, daughter of the count of Hainault[00:10.09]who brought troops and ships as her dowry[00:14.24]On 22nd September[00:17.41]at the head of 100 ships filled with soldiers[00:20.61]Isabella, Mortimer and Prince Edward set sail for England.[00:32.04]When Isabella stepped onto the Suffolk coast[00:34.92]she was taking up arms against her King and husband, with her lover at her side[00:41.00]She could hardly have been more openly defying the conventions of female virtue[00:46.44]And yet she wasn't met with outrage and vilification[00:50.20]Instead, she was greeted with open arms[00:55.03]While there was no alternative to Edward's rule[00:57.64]his people hadn't known how to resist[01:01.41]Isabella wasn't challenging him in her own name,[01:04.19]she, after all, had no right to the throne,[01:07.41]but in the name of their 13-year-old son, Prince Edward[01:10.06]