Catherine de Medici: Now the major TV series THE SERPENT QUEEN

Author: Leonie Frieda Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 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...Read more