One of the legends associated with the Inn relates to the downfall of Roger Mortimer, Earl of March and paramour of the then Queen mother, Isabella.
Visitors to the Castle will doubtless have seen the railed-off entrance, south of the palace that leads down into the network of caves that honeycombs the Castle rock.
This is where, in the year 1330AD, King Edward the Third entered the Castle to arrest his mother’s lover, Roger Mortimer, who had treasonously murdered his father, King Edward the Second. Mortimer was captured in the royal apartment and subsequently hanged. It is said that Mortimer and Isabella used to meet in secret in Mortimer’s Room, a small room, cut out of the rock at the back of the Inn.
This was connected to the Castle grounds by a small passage, known as Mortimer’s Hole, through the interconnected network of caves.
