But Catherine finds strength and a way to survive this torture. She is only Dauphiness, and later Queen, by title, facing humiliation everywhere she turns. Here at the French Court, Catherine faces more emotional stress from her husband, Henry II, and his mistress, Diane de Poitiers. Catherine at first is the wife of the Dauphin, who eventually becomes King. The bulk of the book takes place in the French Court. The upbringing and emotional stress that Catherine had at the hands of her Aunt and the Pope really molded her into what she would become later in her life. Plaidy chooses the details that she includes carefully. Not too much time was spent on her life in Italy, which I would have liked to have seen a little more of, but what was included was great. I found myself immediately sucked into the world of Catherine, Alessandro, and Ippolito (her relatives). I picked up this book thinking that it would have more about Italy in it, seeing as she is a Medici, mistake! Its about France! Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.When I started this book, I really didnt know anything about Catherine de Medici and had only previously read 1 book by Plaidy.
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.
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. Humiliated and unloved, Catherine spies on Henry and his lover, the infamous Diane de Poitiers.
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 fates and banquets of the most immoral court in sixteenth-century Europe, the reluctant bride becomes a passionate but unwanted wife.
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