Arrest of the Duke of Gloucesterdetails

After the decease of Queen Anne, Richard II., then in his twenty-ninth year, made a contract to marry Isabella, daughter of Charles VI., king of France. The affianced bride was only seven years of age, but Richard was desirous of securing a treaty of peace with France, and of thwarting his uncle, the duke of Gloucester, who had never reconciled himself to the loss of power. On November 1, 1896, the marriage was celebrated with much pomp by the archbishop of Canterbury in the church of St Nicholas, at Calais, and the child-queen was crowned at Westminster with great magnificence in the

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