Leonie Frieda - Catherine de Medici: A Biography
Leonie Frieda - Catherine de Medici: A Biography
2005 | ISBN: 0753820390 | English | 544 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 4.4 MB
2005 | ISBN: 0753820390 | English | 544 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 4.4 MB
Orphaned in infancy, Catherine de Medici was the sole legitimate heiress to the Medici family fortune. Married at fourteen to the future Henri II of France, she was constantly humiliated by his influential mistress Diane de Poitiers. When her husband died as a result of a duelling accident in Paris, Catherine was made queen regent during the short reign of her eldest son (married to Mary Queen of Scots and like many of her children he died young). When her second son became king she was the power behind the throne.