On This Day In History . 25th January 1308 . King Edward II married Isabella of France . . 👑 Edward & Isabella were married in Boulogne on 25 January. . ◼ Edward gave Isabella a psalter as a wedding gift, & her father gave her gifts worth over 21,000 livres & a fragment of the True Cross. . ◼ The pair returned to England in February, where Edward had ordered Westminster Palace to be lavishly restored in readiness for their coronation & wedding feast, complete with marble tables, forty ovens & a fountain that produced wine & pimento, a spiced medieval drink. . ◼ After some delays, the ceremony went ahead on 25 February, under the guidance of Robert Winchelsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury. . ◼ They had their first child a little over four years later. The long delay was because of Isabella's youth - she was only twelve years old at the time of her wedding. . ◼ Edward & Isabella's first son, the future Edward III, was born in 1312 amid great celebrations, & three more children followed: John in 1316, Eleanor in 1318 & Joan in 1321, Joan was nicknamed Joan of the Tower, having been born in the Tower of London. Joan went on to become the Queen of Scots on marriage to David II of Scotland. . . ▪ Portrait of Edward II & Isabella landing in England with her son, the future Edward III in 1326 . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1308 #RoyalWedding #History #EdwardII #KingEdwardII #IsabellaofFrance #QueenConsort #HouseofPlantagenet #Plantagenets #EnglishMonarchy #KingofEngland #Plantagenet #d25Jan (at Boulogne, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtEztrIF_KO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1oxzomzj8ugxi