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ISBN
9781780222608
Genre
Algemeen
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08-12-2011
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Orion
Auteur(s)
Leonie Frieda
Catherine de Medici
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SOON
TO
BE
THE
TV
SERIES
'THE
SERPENT
QUEEN',
STARRING
SAMANTHA
MORTONThe
bestselling
revisionist
biography
of
one
of
the
great
women
of
the
16th
centuryOrphaned
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.She
nursed
dynastic
ambitions,
but
was
continually
drawn
into
political
and
religious
intrigues
between
Catholics
and
Protestants
that
plagued
France
for
much
of
the
later
part
of
her
life.
It
had
always
been
said
that
she
was
implicated
in
the
notorious
Saint
Bartholomew's
Day
Massacre,
together
with
the
king
and
her
third
son
who
succeeded
to
the
throne
in
1574,
but
was
murdered.
Her
political
influence
waned,
but
she
survived
long
enough
to
ensure
the
succession
of
her
son-in-law
who
had
married
her
daughter Margaret.
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