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Meanwhile, the messages brought back by Edward's agent Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter and others grew steadily worse: Isabella had publicly snubbed Stapledon ; Edward's political enemies were gathering at the French court, and threatening his emissaries ; Isabella was dressed as a widow, claiming that Hugh Despenser had destroyed her marriage with Edward ; Isabella was assembling a court-in-exile, including Edmund of Kent and John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond.

By this stage Isabella had begun a romantic relationship with the English exile Roger Mortimer.