The queen’s demand to be regent of England and rule the country with all the rights and wealth of the king during the illness of her husband does not resolve the whole problem as she and Edmund Beaufort confidently predicted. Instead, there is uproar. The people now know that the king is sick, mysteriously sick, and utterly disabled. The rumors of what ails him range from the black arts of his enemies, to poison given to him by his wife and her lover. Every great lord arms his men, and when he comes to London marches them into his house, for his own protection, so the city is filled with
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