Overview
Sullen-eyed and broken-hearted, fourteen-year-old Catherine de'' Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry of Orleans, second son of the King of France. On the promise of a dowry fit for a king, Catherine has left her true love in Italy, forced into trading her future for a stake in the French crown.
Amid the glittering fêtes and banquets of the most immoral court in sixteenth-century Europe, the reluctant bride becomes a passionate but unwanted wife. Humiliated and unloved, Catherine spies on Henry and his lover, the infamous Diane de Poitiers. And, tortured by what she sees, Catherine becomes dangerously occupied by a ruthless ambition destined to make her the most despised woman in France: the dream that one day the French crown will be worn be a Medici heir...
- | Author: Jean Plaidy
- | Publisher: Cornerstone
- | Publication Date: Jul 06, 2006
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780099493174
- | ISBN-10: 0099493179
