Such pageants and rejoicing were never known.

They were so young, he not yet sixteen, and she but fourteen, and yet to bear on their shoulders the weight of the state.

A braver looking lad and a fairer girl mine eyes never looked on.

It was soon after this that the events arose which led to the war with France, but this is too long a tale for me to tell you now.

The Prince of Wales was born on the 15th of June, 1330, two years after the royal marriage.
"So far the king had acquiesced quietly in the authority of his mother, but he now paid a visit to France, and doubtless the barons around him there took advantage of his absence from her tutelage to shake her influence over his mind; and at the same time a rising took place at home against her authority.