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This is where the name 'Charing Cross' comes from. Her body was interred at Westminster Abbey. A magnificent bronze gilt effigy designed by William Torel surmounts her tomb. In , Scottish nobles recognised the authority of Edward I. He had planned to marry off his son to the child queen, Margaret I of Scotland, but when Margaret died he was invited by the Scottish nobles to select her successor, and he chose John Balliol over Robert Bruce.

Balliol was effectively a puppet of the English which led the discontented Scots to rise up against him. An English army marched into Scotland in and Edward stormed Berwick upon Tweed, killing its inhabitants and sending the humiliated Balliol to the Tower of London.

The Stone of Sconce, a venerated relic that Scottish kings had been crowned on, was moved to Westminster in The rebel then led a guerrilla war against Edward in the name of Balliol. He was defeated by the king at the battle of Falkirk in and Edward placed Scotland in the care of three regents, including Robert Bruce. Wallace then stormed Stirling Castle in but was handed over to the king.

At the age of 60, the king remarried. Despite the big age gap, the couple got on well and grew close, with Margaret giving birth to their first son within a year of their marriage. He was followed by another son and a daughter, named after his first wife Eleanor, was born in Opposition sprang up, and Edward mercilessly executed the focus of discontent, William Wallace, in The painful and humiliating punishment of hanging, drawing and quartering was specifically designed for Wallace.

Edward's plan to unite the two countries never came to fruition. His year-old widow Margaret never remarried and died ten years later. Edward I. He pronounced in favour of John Balliol, whom he treated as his puppet.

When Balliol objected, Edward invaded Scotland in , put Balliol in the Tower of London and put the Scots under English rule, but he faced one rebellion after another for the next ten years. When the news reached Edward, who was now in his middle sixties, he burst into a violent fury and resolved to finish matters with the Scots once and for all.

His army was ordered to muster at Carlisle in July. Carried north by horse-litter, he made his headquarters at Lanercost Priory, near Carlisle, while his armies ravaged Scotland and drove Bruce in flight, but Bruce returned to action the following summer. Edward was suffering badly from dysentery and his opponents were anticipating his end.

A supposed prophecy of Merlin was in circulation, that after his death the Scots and the Welsh would unite and have things as they wished. A defiant Edward decided that he must take the field himself. Britroyals Home.

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