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Berkeley Castle

The castle dates from the 12th Century. It was here, in 1327, that the deposed King Edward II was imprisoned and brutally murdered in a plot contrived by Edward's wife (the French princess Isabella), and her lover, Mortimer. The castle was "slighted", (made incapable of defense) during the English Civil War.

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Uploaded on September 30, 2005
Taken on September 30, 2005