Description 'He seems to have laboured under an almost child-like misapprehension about the size of his world.
Had greatness not been thrust upon him, he might have lived a life of great harmlessness.
' The reign of Edward II was a succession of disasters.
Unkingly, inept in war, and in thrall to favourites, he preferred digging ditches and rowing boats to the tedium of government.
His infatuation with a young Gascon nobleman, Piers Gaveston, alienated even the most n.
Penguin Books Ltd Edward ii (penguin monarchs). the terrors of kingship, paperback/christopher given-wilson
