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But Edward' s plans had been well laid. Under cover of darkness, a group of young knights made their way through these secret tunnels into the castle. Mortimer and Isabella were surrounded before they knew what was happening. Isabella was forced back into her bedchamber and Mortimer was disarmed and overpowered in a matter of moments. After three years, the rule of Isabella and her consort was over. There was no doubt about Mortimer' s fate. He was sentenced to a traitor' s death for killing the last King and usurping the power of the new one. He was hanged at Tyburn like a common thief. More than 20 years of brutal political experience told Isabella that Mortimer' s fate was inevitable. But what would hers be? She was, after all, the King' s mother and, once Mortimer was dead, the story could be spun that she had been diverted from her royal duty by his machinations. Presumably she mourned for him, but she' d always been a realist and she took care to leave no public traces of her grief. |
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bù guò ài dé huá de jì huà zǎo yǐ jiù xù, zài hēi yè de yǎn hù xià, yī xiǎo duì nián qīng de qí shì, chāo xiǎo dào, mì mì jìn rù le chéng bǎo. mò dì mò hé shā là bèi lā hái méi fǎn yìng guò lái shí, tā men yǐ shēn xiàn chóng wéi, yī shā bèi lā bèi qiáng zhì dài huí tā de qǐn shì. mò dì mò zài piàn kè zhī nèi, biàn bèi chú diào wū qǐ, zāo dào wǔ lì zhì fú. shí gé sān nián, yī shā bèi lā hé tā qíng rén de tǒng zhì shí dài, zhōng yú huà shàng jù hào. mò dì mò jiē xià lái de mìng yùn kě xiǎng ér zhī, tā yǐ pàn guó zuì bèi chū yī jí xíng, bèi zhǐ kòng, móu shā qián yī rèn guó wáng, yǐ jí cuàn duó xīn wáng de quán lì. tā xiàng pǔ tōng xiǎo zéi yì bān bèi diào sǐ zài tài bó ēn xíng chǎng. chāo guò 20 nián de cán kù zhèng zhì jīng yàn, gào sù yī shā bèi lā, mò dì mò de mìng yùn wú fǎ gǎi biàn, nà tā de ne? bì jìng, tā hái shì guó wáng de mǔ qīn, yī dàn mò dì mò sǐ qù, gù shì dí zhēn xiāng biàn huì bèi yǎn gài. zuì zhèng biàn chéng tā bèi mò dì mò yīn móu guǐ jì mí le yǎn, jìn ér méi yǒu lǚ xíng huáng dì shǐ mìng. yě xǔ tā zhēn de yǒu wéi tā āi dào, dàn tā tóng shí yě shì gè xiàn shí zhǔ yì zhě. tā xiǎo xīn dì bù zài gōng gòng chǎng hé biǎo xiàn chū tā de bēi shāng. |