Catherine de Medici played the game of thrones better than anyone in history—yet few people know this ruthless queen's dark history.
It’s wrong to cast Catherine de Medici (b. 1519-d. 1589) as just a Machiavellian matriarch whose ambition eclipsed her children’s happiness… but it’s equally wrong to paint her as a passive pawn of circumstance. Scandal...
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