He was born in Caernarfon, North Wales on 25 April 1284 – six and a half months after his father had Dafydd ap Gruffydd executed – as the youngest child of Edward I and his first Spanish queen, Eleanor of Castile. 🙂 Edward II was a very different man to his father. He was the son of Longshanks, but please don’t hold that against him. So I am very pleased that she has agreed to do this interview. Many of you are already familiar with her blog about Edward and his times, which I consider one of the best historical blogs on the Internet. She candidly admits that he was a failure as king, while arguing persuasively that Edward the man was as interesting and multi-dimensional as any of the Plantagenets. That is what makes Kathryn’s biography of such value, and Edward was very fortunate to have attracted the attention of this dedicated historian. After you read our interview, I am sure that large numbers of you will want to add her book to your own TBR lists.Įdward II was as controversial as he was unconventional, but much of what people think they know about him is often wildly inaccurate for he was also one of the most maligned of the English kings.
One of the books on that list is Edward II, The Unconventional King, by Kathryn Warner. The result is that my To Be Read List is as long as any of my own novels I figure that to read all of the books on that list, I’ll need to live to be 150 or so. Because of this sort of pressure, I’ve all but given up reading for pleasure, a painful sacrifice for someone who loves to read as much as I do. Sadly, this is the way of publishing nowadays writers are expected to write faster than the proverbial speeding bullet, even writers whose books require extensive research. My Facebook readers and friends know that in the last few years, I have been sharing my home with a deadline dragon, who has any number of annoying habits he sheds scales all over the house, scorches the furniture with his fiery breath, and never lets me forget that ticking clock, by his very presence reminding me that time was running out for Lionheart, A King’s Ransom, and now for Outremer.
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