Commentary
It is always difficult to be the heir of a successful king, particularly when you lack the virtues that your eminent father had possessed. Edward II was not the successful military leader that his father Edward I (aka “Longshanks” and “Hammer of the Scots”) had been. In fact, at Bannockburn in 1314, he handed the Scots a victory so complete that tartan-clad football fans are still celebrating it 700 years later.
