Stories of three famous kings under one cover. Each of them in its own way reached the edge... and some crossed it. JOHN (1167-1216), nicknamed Landless. He was a loser whom no one loved, especially after the reign of his noble brother Richard Lionheart. Outright lost two big wars: with the French - lost half of his possessions; with his own subjects - lost almost half of his royal power. The same king who signed the prototype of modern constitutions - Magna Carta. EDWARD (1312-1377), a hero and lucky, nicknamed the Third. He began the Hundred Years War with France, in several glorious battles he interrupted the color of the French nobility, and his reign was called the "golden age" of English history. RICHARD (1367 - 1400) might have been nicknamed the Prince of Denmark if Hamlet had been written two hundred years earlier. He lost his father early, at first he was dependent on his mother and old advisers, and then hoped for peer friends who betrayed him, overthrew him and froze him in prison. They say he was an impulsive and irritable handsome man, but not as neurasthenic as the brilliant playwright painted him.