Edward II, his lover was Hugh Despenser (an ancestor of the late Diana Spencer Mountbatten). Edwards wife was Isabella, nicknamed "the She-Wolf of France". She and her lover, Roger Mortimer, eventually foced Edward to abdicate in favour of his son, Edward III. Despenser was found guilty of treason and castrated, disembowelled and quartered. Since nobles were usually beheaded, some ascribe this particularly brutal punishment to Isabellas' sexual jealousy. Edward II died at Berkeley Castle in 1327. There is a persistent rumour that he was murdered by having a red-hot poker thrust up his anus.