The demise of Edward II came up in a recent conversation in the @history.after.dark room about conspiracy theories and myths in history. It inspired me to share the room, and entrance to it, at Berkeley Castle where Edward II is supposed to have been murdered. . The famous story, much repeated, of a red hot poker inserted into the king’s rectum in order to kill him, was put about to discredit the dead king and allude to the possibility that he was homosexual. Unfortunately, such is human natu
